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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
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."
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.
The Serbian Wikipedia (Serbian: Википедија на српском језику, Vikipedija na srpskom jeziku) is the Serbian-language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Created on 16 February 2003, it reached its 100,000th article on 20 November 2009 before getting to another milestone with the 200,000th article on 6 July ...
The Doublespeak Award was a humorous award in the United States of America.It was described as an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered", i.e. those who have engaged in doublespeak.
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