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Post by Verbivore on Jun 7, 2008 9:32:05 GMT
Milton A Smith was asked to briefly define his 1952 neologism, "bafflegab". It was, he said:
"[...] multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilized for promulgations implementing Procrustean determinations by governmental bodies".
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Post by Pete on Jun 7, 2008 13:22:26 GMT
I couldn't have put it better myself.
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