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Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are interpolated into normal speech to give the appearance of knowledge, and thus confuse or amuse the audience. [ 1 ]
Doubletalk, double talk, or double-talk may refer to: Doublespeak, language that is deceptively ambiguous; Gibberish (language game), a phonetically modified version of English; Double-talk, speech including nonsense syllables that appears erudite
Orwell's doublethink is also credited with having inspired the commonly used term doublespeak, which itself does not appear in the book.Comparisons have been made between doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essay "Politics and the English Language", in which "unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other 'doublespeakers' of whatever stripe ...
Double-talk routines Abraham Kalish (December 18, 1896, [ nb 1 ] [ 1 ] – September 7, 1966), known by the stage name Al Kelly , was an American vaudeville comedian. Kelly was known as a double-talk artist, [ 1 ] and went on to stooge for other comedians such as Willie Howard and Ernie Kovacs . [ 1 ]
Double Talk is an American game show that aired on the ABC network from August 18 to December 19, 1986. [1] The show was a Bob Stewart-produced word game which borrowed elements from Stewart's previous show Shoot for the Stars and his then-current editions of Pyramid. Double Talk was hosted by actor and frequent Pyramid panelist Henry Polic II.
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."
Manzai is a traditional style of comedy in Japanese culture comparable to double act comedy. [1] Manzai usually involves two performers (manzaishi)—a straight man and a funny man —trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
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