by IrishRepublicanArmy June 05, 2004
Doublespeak here ought to be doublethink. The person who first defined it must have had doublethink confused with newspeak and thus combined the two. The definition given is for doublethink.
Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quie simple All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memmory. "Reality control," they called it; in Newspeak, "doublethink."
by lontrus November 05, 2004
From George Orwell's 1984. The guy was 20 years out, but other than that fairly accurate... It's the ability to hold two separated and completely contradictory statements in your head and believe that both are true
Dubya: "We are bringing democracy to Iraq" (while bringing a dictatorship to the US via the "Patroit" act, Florida elections etc etc etc).
by Sloan Squared June 11, 2004
He wouldn't give me a firm committment to do the job, just some doublespeak about how he "might be available next week."
by Dave Spreefelt December 05, 2005
The medical term is echolalia which is the involuntary parrotlike repetition of a word or phrase just spoken by another person. Echolalia is a feature of schizophrenia. In Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" one of the characters suffers from chronic doublespeak.
by Kat November 20, 2004
"I tried pot....but I didn't inhale." - Beelzebill Clinton
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"That depends on what the definition of the word is is." - Beelzebill Satan KKKlinton
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"That depends on what the definition of the word is is." - Beelzebill Satan KKKlinton
by pfffft July 04, 2006
The medical condition in which one must say everything twice. Like that McDonald's commercial. This is closely related to triple take and mental retardation..
by Mark H. Nagle September 08, 2004