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double-talk |
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double-talk (British, American & Australian) also double-speak (mainly American) a way of speaking that confuses people in order to avoid telling them the truth He said the new train service would run fewer trains, but would provide a better service - sheer double-talk. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The use of the term is a feat of Double-speak that could have come straight from the pages of George Orwell. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which advocates on behalf of file-sharers, ridiculed what he called Hollywood's double-speak. And it's all done with the usual double-speak intended to confuse the public, with anti-environmental actions taken in the name of "business" or "economic development" or even rhetoric about the environment itself: "We had to raze the forest to save it. |
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