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The term "gobbledygook" has a long history of use in politics to deride deliberately obscure statements and complicated but ineffective explanations. The following are a few examples: Richard Nixon's Oval Office tape from June 14, 1971, showed H. R. Haldeman describing a situation to Nixon as "... a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the ...
Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), [1] sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.. He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", [2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook".
Hard Sentences and Tongue-Twisters for Broken Telephone. 1. Betty Bottle bought some bitter bits of butter. ... Gobbledygook. 9. Hogwarts hogwash. 10. Ice mice are not nice. 11. I’m wearing ...
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish or Geta [1]) is a language game that is played in the United States and Canada by adding "idig" to the beginning of each syllable of spoken words.
The idea behind the metric goes back to government employee John O'Hayre's 1966 manual, titled Gobbledygook Has Gotta Go.In his style manual, O'Hayre proposed a metric that considers shorter sentences and shorter words easier to read: in a 100-word sample, each one-syllable word (with the exception of some stop words) is worth one point, and each sentence (semicolon or period) is worth 3 points.
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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."
Senators in both parties expressed frustration after they received a classified briefing Wednesday afternoon about a Defense Department intelligence leak and its fallout.