"Echolalia' he told me. Then he referred me to Michael Leunig's comment. Echolalia is a psychiatric term referring to the meaningless repetition of spoken words. I found Watson's comments in the fly-leaf of his 'Bendable Learnings' - "Management speak has triumphed. It has made much of our everyday language dull, dimwitted and meaningless. .. Your words will be obscure and indigestible. You will conform to the new way. You will surrender the ability to write and speak with spontaneity or clarity and, with prolonged use, even your ability to think clearly."
Leunig says "I fancy echolalia could well refer to a condition in modern media and their captive communities. Like the compulsive rocking back and forth of the radically distressed, echolalia could be the name for the repetitious, unstoppable going around and around of dead or dying ideas in the culture; the boring babble and banging on in the vortex of tribal media chatter."
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