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	Pearson Education - Modern Duckspeak
		Their Duckspeak has much in common with everyday cliché: its facts are always cold, but its heads are invariably cool and its looks at any phenomenon are always long and hard.
		Duckspeak measures or policies are always taken right across the board and they are never launched singly but in a whole raft.
		However, the Duckspeaker must remember that initiatives are never launched, but piloted, although even with the most daring pilot the ceiling of ambition for any initiative is a step change or a quantum leap.
	www.pearsoned.co.uk /bookshop/article.asp?item=612 (941 words)

	Public Address \| Island Life \| If It Quacks Like A Duck
		He suggested that the President commanded substantial talent as a political speaker, when analysed according to the principles of duckspeak, the language made famous by George Orwell in '1984'.
		This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning 'to quack like a duck'.
		If you click over to the Ketchum piece, you'll see how he analyses the president's words, substituting QUACKS for portions of the sentences that are mostly or entirely meaningless.
	www.publicaddress.net /print,1103.sm (351 words)

	Discussing the conception and purposes, political and literary, of “Newspeak” within “1984"
		After all, it is the aim of the Party to achieve such a state of unawareness amongst the population – a state whereby the people will blindly praise the party and accept without question any idea it preaches – the purpose for which Newspeak was conceived.
		This concept of duckspeak is emphasised by striking imagery.
		However, from the point of view of the Party, this incoherent talk provides the state of mind into which it is easy to feed the appropriate information, and as Orwell explains in the Appendix, it is encouraged.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /roache/files/ENG-Newspeak-230204.htm (2769 words)

	Reader Duckspeak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Perhaps I am not even sure what I am asking but I think if you could make any connections with events within the last month that would have a good strong connection to this term (duckspeak) then maybe that would be the answer I am looking for.
		To make duckspeak examples of your own use the above excerpt and substitute Blair, Putin or any other dummy [puppet] of your choice.
		And of course the talking-heads who announce the news are also duckspeakers.
	www.orwelltoday.com /readerduckspeak.shtml (499 words)

	Duckspeak - Consumerium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Duck-Speaking refers to duckspeak, a term defined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty Four.
		Duckspeaking is the repetition and invocation of prior formulas, e.g.
		Rather than revisiting the self-claims and current self-image to determine if they need revision, the duckspeaker simply deletes or engages in quack-over, which drowns the truth in more repeated copies of the formula.
	develop.consumerium.org /wiki/Duckspeak (86 words)

	RUSH LIMBAUGH: A DOUBLEPLUSGOOD DUCKSPEAKER [Free Republic]
		Duckspeak is a term that I am sure most of you are familiar with, it is Orwellian Newspeak.
		He only provides a steady stream of propaganda or duckspeak meant to deflect the way our government really works and most importantly to hide the simple fact that everyone, including our beloved Bush, is actually on the same team.
		I don't think there is anything evil or subversive about Rush's "duckspeak." I believe he is just being a true party loyalist who thinks that open criticism of the GOP is tantamount to supporting the Democratic Party.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3aac762b5ad9.htm (6968 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And, in amongst her barbs she highlights soimething that always makes me laugh--the endless duckspeak of the left.
		Duckspeak, for the 1984 challenged, is the reduction of ones speech and thought processes to Party platitudes, aphorisms, and propaganda.
		Learn your duckspeak and it's easy to hold two mutually contradictory thoughts in your head at once.
	www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=7844&commentID=93941 (227 words)

	Message Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Your teacher, as somebody else said, is confusing "duckspeak" with "doublespeak".
		As I recall, "duckspeak" was defined as you say above.
		The text then went on to say that duckspeak had once been considered a bad thing, but was now regarded by the State as something to be aimed for.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/messages/51379.shtml (333 words)

	Duckspeak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning.
		Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.
		Applied to an opponent, it is abuse: applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.
	www.orwelltoday.com /duckspeak.shtml (613 words)

	Literature Network Forums - O'Brien & NewSpeak?
		I thought that part of the symbolism of newspeak was the doubleplus ungood translation.
		That why "duckspeak" was used to describe both babble and party propoganda.
		Duckspeak was both an accusation and a compliment.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?p=36699 (879 words)

	Self-claim - Consumerium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Self-reference can at time be an annoyance or a distraction, but it is necessary in order to combat groupthink.
		If no examination of self-claims is allowed, discourse about current policies can devolve into duckspeak.
		Those self claims made very early in, or before, the entity's formation, are usually reflected in its founding assumptions, e.g.
	develop.consumerium.org /wiki/Self-claim (296 words)

	Salon.com \| George W. Bush, the doubleplusgood doublespeaker!
		In his interview on "Meet the Press," the president proved he has mastered the Orwellian art of duckspeak.
		If one applies the principles of duckspeak to Bush's performance, he is a doubleplusgood doublethinker.
		Duckspeak, of course, is the language celebrated in George Orwell's "1984." Characterized by mindless invocation and the repetition of slogans, it was the highest form of speech in Orwell's nightmare demolition of the English language, Newspeak.
	www.salon.com /opinion/feature/2004/02/10/duckspeak (199 words)

	OCR Document
		The third trend that disturbs my slumber is the steady increase of what looks like "deliberate stupidity" or "duckspeak" in political debate.
		The term "deliberate stupidity" was coined by Arthur Koestler to describe certain contortions of Marxist (or actually, Stalinist) logic in the 1930s and 1940s, which Orwell later called "duckspeak" - the substitution of slogans for thought, and dogma for analysis; in short, a general rejection of common sense on the part of alleged intellectuals.
		I am less judgmental than Koestler or Orwell and not at all sure the stupidity is totally deliberate, but I do find it appalling.
	www.rawilsonfans.com /articles/hell.htm (1119 words)

	Modern Big Brotherism
		That is the psychological method of using words to cause or prevent action or to evoke or inhibit emotion in the citizens of Big Brothers country.
		With duckspeak it makes no difference what the subject is, "whatever it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy...." After all, "it was not the man's brain that was speaking it was his larynx.
		The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in the true sense, it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck." With the efficient use of' duckspeak, the speaker can ensure orthodoxy, which "means not thinking-not needing to think.
	members.aol.com /nuuaunk/2IC2/infopg4BIGb.html (2259 words)

	Message Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As far as I can remember, the word was duckspeak, and, like many Newspeak words, it has more than one meaning.
		I don't remember ever coming across the word "doubletalk", but there was the word "doublethink", meaning to accept two contradictory meanings of the same thing, like with the understanding of the word "duckspeak".
		I think it was a lot more complicated than that, but that was the general idea.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/messages/51362.shtml (545 words)

	The Rational Enquirer - Comments on Looking Forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Bush says he looks forward to "articulating" I wonder how much coaching he needed to pronounce that word, much less understand it.
		Since reading the Russert interview transcript, Orwell's "duckspeak" definition has never seemed more perfect...
		Posted by Jeff on February 12, 2004 10:42 AM The US really needs the equivalent of a "prime minister's question time".
	www.rationalenquirer.org /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=100 (277 words)

	A Government Employee’s Pledge of Allegiance
		In fact, we have to be "double-plus good duckspeakers." A duckspeaker, by the way, is someone who can quack the party line well or someone who speaks, but makes no sense at all, depending on the context.
		The pledge of allegiance, I believe, is just another example of right-think and good duckspeak.
		It is an attempt to make us forget that the individual is superior to the aggregate masses and that the government exits by the consent of the governed.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/self1.html (351 words)

	Stephen Pollard • Comment on Wailing against wailing against (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a spirit of communitaire bonhomie, I've written to Prof Munt to ask her what the second para means.
		Stated by: Bob Doney on September 19, 2004 09:02 PM Duckspeak.
		I'll stick with that old saw of "social analysis", "There but for the grace of God go I." At least that's what I'd infer from putting humility together with something as damned foolish as "negotiating an active self".
	www.stephenpollard.net /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1785 (507 words)

	Paul Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Also, a good sound bite on the evening news, and maybe even a theme for the coming presidential campaign.
		What we have here is another prize specimen of Orwellian language, specifically, the branch dubbed duckspeak -- a mindless but effective quacking of the party line.
		In the Newspeak of "1984,'' to describe an orator as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker was high praise.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1099/iso1.asp (752 words)

	oneafrikan.com linkblog » Blog Archive » Kudos to Feedburner for making it easy to leave Feedburner (from: ...
		There’s lots of talk about Web 2.0 and technology and AJAX and all that jazz, but to me, the companies that really get it are the ones that treat people with respect.
		Kill the buzz words, kill the marketing duckspeak, kill the crap and treat people fairly — and that includes being absolutely clear on how to cancel the service if someone wants to leave.
		This entry was posted on Monday, July 11th, 2005 at 5:04 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
	linkblog.oneafrikan.com /2005/07/11/kudos-to-feedburner-for-making-it-easy-to-leave-feedburner-from-jason (178 words)

	Bushflash.com- anti-war, anti-bush media, worldwide!
		If every american had read this book, Bush wouldn't have made it six months past 9/11, without being ridden out of town on a rail.
		It's all there- endless war for unattainable empire, torture, newspeak, doublethink, Goldstein, groupthink, duckspeak, and everything else we see in our headlines, every day- if only we only had the knowledge to see it, collectively.
		If you don't want to read it online, print it out, and read it in a comfy chair, with the beverage of your choice.
	www.bushflash.com /1984.html (1035 words)

	DUCKPOND: THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Duckpond is well hidden away from the general commerce of the information highway.
		This link is of particular interest to me. I found it serendipitously, as is becoming a habit on this blog from my digressions into duckspeak.
		People have operations all the time - and most of the time, I understand, they come out alive.
	ian_westbrook.blogspot.com /2004/07/personal-and-political.html (335 words)

	Ilyka Damen: The Third Biggest Problem in This Country
		In fact, I have." "Was your relative a plump, reasonably healthy 41 year-old at the time?" "Oh, no, grandma was in her 90s and suffered from hypertension, CHF, and diabetes.
		How do you listen to yourself and not hear duckspeak?
		Not to wallow in melodrama, but it's to the point I'm ready to die now.
	ilyka.mu.nu /archives/072805.html (273 words)

	Presidential Doublespeak -- Mark Andrew Dwyer
		He said that wellmigration is extra doubleplusgood for the economy.
		Like "duckspeak" or "pride", "demand" has a double meaning.
		It has a positive meaning when applied to one's supporters and negative meaning when applied to one's opponents.
	www.americanpatrol.com /GUESTCOLUMNS/DWYER/PrezDoublespeak050208.html (992 words)

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		Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning ?to quack like a duck?.
		other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning.
		orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a
	www.webservertalk.com /archive154-2004-12-803257.html (233 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		'"Reactionary" is an item of duckspeak used by members of the ultraleft.
		I'd hate to think he regarded me as a warmongering capitalist, an exploiter of the working class and a running dog.'
		((Appropos of duckspeak: I'd rather be a warmonger, a capitalist, and a running dog exploiter of the working class than a peacemongering socialist chained dog being exploited by the working class.
	www.pjfarmer.com /sfr25.htm (666 words)

	Urban Dictionary: duckspeak
		Against an enemy, it means he speaks incoherently and without thought.
		The other one, however, tells nothing but duckspeak.
		Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=duckspeak&r=d (89 words)

	The Command Post - Global Recon - New North Korean Missiles Could Threaten U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As unnerving it is to see further development of R-27 by the Jongettes (or navalized versions of the Nodong, for that matter), I can think of no quicker way to bankrupt an already tottering economy.
		That is really one of the most inane things I have ever heard and you are incredibly stupid if you believe it.
		But I am convinced that you are duckspeaking, not communicating.
	www.command-post.org /nk/2_archives/014184.html (5335 words)

	vitia » Blog Archive » Election Politics & Rhetoric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I was delighted, after the ridiculous, stupid, and sustained Republican duckspeak about “flip-flops,” to hear George W. Bush pronounce the so-called “war on terror” to be unwinnable, and to then declare the very next day that the United States would win that so-called war.
		I think Mark Crispin Miller is right: the man’s a sociopath.
		A article at Vitia records an extensive list of obvious Bush flip-flops” I was delighted, after the ridiculous, stupid, and sustained Republican duckspeak about “flip-flops,” to hear George W. Leave a Reply
	vitia.org /wordpress/archives/2004/08/31/election-politics-rhetoric (1607 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If you have a DuckSpeak phrase to add to the database, just write your phrase here and click ENTER.
		Click here to see the DuckSpeak Translator in action.
		Click here to find out what constitutes a meaningless DuckSpeak phrase.
	speeches.com /DuckSpeakPhrase.aspx (39 words)

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