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Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, [1] pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders. [2]
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish or Geta [1]) is a language game that is played in the United States and Canada by adding "idig" to the beginning of each syllable of spoken words. [2] [3] Similar games are played in many other countries. The name Gibberish refers to the nonsensical sound of words spoken according to the rules of this game. [4]
Samuel Augustus Maverick (July 23, 1803 – September 2, 1870) was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.His name is the source of the term "maverick", first attested in 1867. [1]
Maury Maverick (1895–1954), US Congressman from Texas, who coined the word "gobbledygook" Maury Maverick Jr. (1921–2003), Texas attorney, activist, and columnist; Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), Texas pioneer and land baron from whom the term maverick originated; Samuel Maverick Jr. (1837-1936), Texas soldier, businessman, and Alamo ...
William D. Lutz (/ l ĘŚ t s /; born December 12, 1940) is an American linguist who specializes in the use of plain language and the avoidance of doublespeak (deceptive language).
When the writer Ken Auletta had profiled her for the New Yorker in an article titled "Blood, Simpler," he did not reveal that her technology failed to work. But one odd detail caught his attention.
Wordle, the popular online word-guessing game from the New York Times, is now available to play as a board game. Hasbro, maker of popular games like Monopoly and Clue, have introduced Wordle: The ...
He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", [2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin ...