Psittacism

Psittacism

Psittacism is speech or writing that appears mechanical or repetitive in the manner of a parrot "Psittacism and Dead Language" Education Week January 22, 1997 [http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpsittacism%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F1997%2F01%2F22%2F17delatt.h16.html&levelId=2100&baddebt=false] ] . More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning. The word is derived from the latin term for parrots "psittaci"america, europe, and the soviet union By Walter Laqueur [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nptiiY2vxlgC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=psittacism&source=web&ots=WOhje9iyTp&sig=p13sDNXYykiMt-nPlv0_nWAJjmA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result] ] in an analogy with the ability of some parrots to speak human words but without any knowledge of their meaning.

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