Jens Ropers wrote:
PS: Gobbledygook. I like saying that. Gobbledygook. :-)
PPS: Actually, WordNet's entry is incomplete. From my work in (English language) IT telephone support, I recall that most contemporary Irish and UK business world PC users understand gobbledygook to mean "a bunch of garbled, seemingly random characters". (Which is what Giuseppe was referring to. But most of yers knew that anyway.)
According to Eric Partridge in "A Dictionary of Slang" it was coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick in the US for "pompous, long-winded,vague speech or writing, heavily laced with jargon." He apparently expanded on the idea in his 1952 book "Chamber of Horrors". (I don't have it, but it seems like a good enough reason to find a copy.) The verb "to gobble" was imitative of the sound made by a turkey.
Although my source does not make the connection in "Gobbledygook", "gook" has a proud tradition in American pejorative slang. During WWII it referred to the Japanese. At an earlier time iit had reference to the Philippino insurgents who dared to believe that the Spanish American War had anything to do with their gaining independence.
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