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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" class="extiw" title="w:George Orwell">George Orwell</a> in 1949 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Newspeak" title="Newspeak">Newspeak</a> in his novel <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" class="extiw" title="w:Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=duckspeak&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">duckspeak</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/thoughtless" title="thoughtless">Thoughtless</a> or <a href="/wiki/formulaic" title="formulaic">formulaic</a> speech. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1989</b></span>, Richard Rorty, <cite>Contingency, irony, and solidarity</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in <b>duckspeak</b>, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts...</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2004</b></span>, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, <cite>Club Fantasy</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I think you might just have had the courage to realize things I didn't know were there. That's really <b>duckspeak</b>, isn't it. I only thought I was happy.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2006</b></span>, Stephen Ingle, <cite>The social and political thought of George Orwell</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">They have developed a particularly obnoxious form of ungood <b>duckspeak</b>. 'Friendly fire' and 'collateral damage' are only the most obvious examples...</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2008</b></span>, Richard J Alexander, <cite>Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach</cite>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">To be sure, he provides very many juicy examples of such <b>duckspeak</b> or bullshit...</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=duckspeak&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-thoughtless_speech"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">thoughtless speech</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="thoughtless speech"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=ankkapuhe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ankkapuhe (page does not exist)">ankkapuhe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ankkapuhe" class="extiw" title="fi:ankkapuhe">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Quaksprech&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Quaksprech (page does not exist)">Quaksprech</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Hungarian: <span 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