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People also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it'
by rwjwjuwjudf 11y ago
People also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it's poetry, but those people are the exception.
- WalterBright 11y agoTechnobabble is a prime example of that. (Star Trek TNG is a hilarious example of pseudo-science jibber jabber.)
- wizardforhire 11y agoTech the tech!
- 13of40 11y agoIt's interesting to watch how, in a big tech project, a director or architect will occasionally start using a word like "corpus", "idempotent", "assert", etc. and it will trickle down the layers of the team. By the time the keypunch guy is using it, it's gone out of fashion, like last year's suit.
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- wizardforhire 11y agoKnowing this, it's fun to purposely mispronounce words to see if it will catch on...
- facetube 11y agoGo all the way IMO: make up the words and see if they catch on.