Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts...
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Duckspeak
Synonyms for "duckspeak"
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- ankkapuhe noun (thoughtless speech)
German
1 entries- Quaksprech noun (thoughtless speech)
Hungarian
1 entries- kacsabeszél noun (thoughtless speech)
Italian
1 entries- ocoparlare noun (thoughtless speech)
Russian
1 entries- речекряк noun (thoughtless speech)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- паткоговор noun (thoughtless speech)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
I think you might just have had the courage to realize things I didn't know were there. That's really duckspeak, isn't it. I only thought I was happy.
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They have developed a particularly obnoxious form of ungood duckspeak. 'Friendly fire' and 'collateral damage' are only the most obvious examples...
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To be sure, he provides very many juicy examples of such duckspeak or bullshit...
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