Content-free chat. Found mostly between teenagers, but surprisingly common between adults. This is a newspeak word. A good example that 1984 isn't fiction.

'There is a word in Newspeak,' said Syme, 'I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to talk 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.'

Unquestionably Syme will be vaporized, Winston thought again.
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Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when The Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.

George Orwell, 1984

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