what's it called where you speak in a way to confuse people

What's the word for a person who is a professional nonsense speaker.
Like not talking a load of shit but I mean where they purposely jump subject to subject so that you can't understand them.
I saw this guy do it on tv before and it was funny, can't remember the name for it now though.:ermm:

Political baffle maybe?

Obfuscation?
Bloviation?

kev

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Not those.
It's called like 'side talking' or 'back talking; or something like that (not those though).

I'm pretty sure there called mentalist.

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I'm pretty sure there called mentalist.

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where?:unsure:

Is it double talking?

Equivocating or prevaricating possibly.

I thought prevaricating was the art of delaying, or trying to drag a certain thing onwards, like kids prevaricating before going to bed at night, so they go and have another drink of water, go to the loo once more.. That type of stuff.

Does "bullshit" ring a bell?

Slandered is the right word ...ermm..I think so :|

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I thought prevaricating was the art of delaying, or trying to drag a certain thing onwards, like kids prevaricating before going to bed at night, so they go and have another drink of water, go to the loo once more.. That type of stuff.

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You were wrong.

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Slandered is the right word ...ermm..I think so :|

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No it isn't.

ermm...dunno if there is a different word:(

I can confirm, different is definitely a word.

cheers to that :w00t:

All hail to the ale.

Rossco. I think you mean doublespeak. xx

I can confirm the doublespeak is also a word.

it's not doublespeak/double talk though. :(

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What's the word for a person who is a professional nonsense speaker.
Like not talking a load of shit but I mean where they purposely jump subject to subject so that you can't understand them.
I saw this guy do it on tv before and it was funny, can't remember the name for it now though.:ermm:

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kev

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Only to the uninformed. :whistling

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I thought prevaricating was the art of delaying, or trying to drag a certain thing onwards, like kids prevaricating before going to bed at night, so they go and have another drink of water, go to the loo once more.. That type of stuff.

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Prevarication is lying, pretty much.

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Rossco. I think you mean doublespeak. xx

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That would've been my guess, but you might also consider bureaucratese, prolixity, logorrhea, or term such speech as merely deconstructionist.

Yeah, the answer is definitely Kev :yes:

:lol:

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Yeah, the answer is definitely Kev :yes:

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A pox on both of you.

I have never engaged in deconstructionism in my life. :whistling

I think the correct term is PIMP

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What's the word for a person who is a professional nonsense speaker.

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An Irishman? :unsure:

:glag:

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What's the word for a person who is a professional nonsense speaker.
Like not talking a load of shit but I mean where they purposely jump subject to subject so that you can't understand them.
I saw this guy do it on tv before and it was funny, can't remember the name for it now though.:ermm:

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JPism erm .. thewizeardism

My uncle used to speak backslang

He probably still does, I just haven't seen him for a while. Anyway, carry on.

Professor Stanley Unwin


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Actually is it not "stream of consciousness" you are thinking about?

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Actually is it not "stream of consciousness" you are thinking about?

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I actually did that in here once, confounding poor Hobbes.

Ah, good times. :whistling

Kev, how does it feel to have been on this board for nearly 6 years?

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Kev, how does it feel to have been on this board for nearly 6 years?

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I don't know.

Ask lynx. :huh:

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Kev, how does it feel to have been on this board for nearly 6 years?

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I don't know.

Ask lynx. :huh:

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You don't want to discuss it, apparently...



-bd :(

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I don't know.

Ask lynx. :huh:

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You don't want to discuss it, apparently...



-bd :(

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Oh, no, that's not what I mean at all, Paul.

(see what I did there)

I have occasionally recapitulated my thoughts/feelings this time of year.

I still think (at this point in time, anyway) the world of everyone I've ever corresponded with in this place.

In six years, I have given up on precisely two people here, people who have left without my having chased them away.

My friends know who they are, and I think I've attained a modest degree of popularity or something like it.

I am comfortably aware of those who think me a buffoon.

My affection for this board and it habitues is unabated.

Nothing at all wrong with any of that, really. :whistling

You know the big fella's right.

It's one o'clock and way past my bed-time.

I just sliced a chili and then scratched my ear. I have just found out I have a small abbrasion in my ear. It hurts like feck.