echolalic

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It's sort of scripting, sort of echolalic, but altogether unique Leelo-speak.

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  • It's sort of scripting, sort of echolalic, but altogether unique Leelo-speak. —  Squidalicious
  • Then he fell into a mitigated echolalic script from Yo Gabba Gabba, which he insisted I type out in it's entirety. —  MOM - Not Otherwise Specified
  • Here, the checks and inhibitions are easily accomplished, unless disease in some manner prevents them; but there are strong indications that a "spirit"--at least when communicating--cannot control his stream of thinking to the same extent; and that, if it is constantly interrupted--by questions, etc., as it usually is--it tends to break up and become automatic, echolalic, or useless. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
  • In fact, John himself is the most interesting thing in it, and he is an echolalic simpleton who occasionally breaks up his mimicked conversation with the initially gnomic and yet thereafter quickly uncompelling information that there are, "Some things I know and some things I don't." —  Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Here, the checks and inhibitions are easily accomplished, unless disease in some manner prevents them; but there are strong indications that a "spirit" -- at least when communicating -- cannot control his stream of thinking to the same extent; and that, if it is constantly interrupted -- by questions, etc., as it usually is -- it tends to break up and become automatic, echolalic, or useless. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
 

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