Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:45 pm
Yo Turb 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/double%20talkDTS wrote:Massive Quasars wrote:...
I sense a distinct lack of pretense, double speak, and innuendo in your posts. These are characteristics I find admirable in fellow forum members, given how the cloak of anonymity often brings out less desirable personality traits in individuals.
Care to explain what double speak is? It's not on Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary doesn't say much. I tried Dictionary.com but that had no entry for it and so it just searched the web for it. That brought up a Wikipedia entry. The Wikipedia entry is a bit wordy. It really needs a dictionary entry. Well if you don't want to explain it that's OK. I think I got the gist of it.
I don't think I've seen double speak on forums, maybe cause I wasn't familliar with the term.
In the Wikipedia entry it's actually done as one word, doublespeak, in line with George Orwell's invented words (he didn't invent this one, it says).
I'll look out for it. Doublespeak on forums, I mean.
Oh.Massive Quasars wrote:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/double%20talk
"2. Deliberately ambiguous or evasive language. Also called doublespeak."
A close enough approximation of the definition I had in mind.
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