duckspeak
Thoughtless or formulaic speech.
uncountable
Because his utterances detour through his brain - rather than, as in duckspeak, coming straight from the well-programmed larynx - he has Socratic doubts...
Where it comes from
From duck + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry duckspeak (CC BY-SA 4.0).