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Friday, August 04, 2006

Word of the whenever we feel like it

Gobbledygook:

Unclear, wordy jargon.

Man, that word would have hit the spot in many of our Telluridean arguments. I stumbled upon it in an introduction to a collected works of Henry Dave Tho. So, if you ever stumble upon any jargon that's particularly wordy or unclear, there's the word.

2 Comments:

Blogger Charles Wu said...

You know, that's on the Official Wikipedia List (c) of words hardest to translate, along with serendipity and googly (a delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler in cricket). And in the article, ta-da! Poshlust!

12:33 AM, August 05, 2006

 
Blogger Sanjukta said...

Isn't that the language of the goblins?

11:15 PM, August 05, 2006

 

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