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To: tcrlaf

It was all, “Quack, Quack, Quack.”


457 posted on 01/10/2017 7:13:01 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

It was Quack on Crack.


458 posted on 01/10/2017 7:13:23 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Orwell would call that "Duckspeak".

excerpt from Part 1, Chapter 5, page 46-47: "...Winston turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away....He held some important post in the FICTION DEPARTMENT....It was just a noise, a quack-quack-quacking....Every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc....Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. 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 noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck. Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew. The voice from the other table quacked rapidly on, easily audible in spite of the surrounding din. "There is a word in Newspeak" said Syme, "I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse: applied to someone you agree with, it is praise..."

Boy, how fitting.

508 posted on 01/10/2017 8:54:58 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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