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Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, [1] pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders. [2]
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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 ".
Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), [1] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.
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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Similar games are played in many other countries.
Some words or phrases might be out of bounds for you or your partner, and it’s both of your jobs to know what they are. They might say, “When partners call me a b*tch, it’s not really a turn ...
Larry Benson introduced the concept of "written-formulaic" to describe the status of some Anglo-Saxon poetry which, while demonstrably written, contains evidence of oral influences, including heavy reliance on formulas and themes [1] Frequent oral-formulaic themes in Old English poetry include "Beasts of Battle" [2] and the "Cliff of Death". [3]