Daring Fireball‘Lengthy Memoranda and Gobbledygook Language’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/18/gobbledygook
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/18/gobbledygook
Martin the paranoid android
@daringfireball @gruber also: hyphen in the sub example?
Brendan Thompson@daringfireball excellent article! I try and adhere to the BLUF principle as defined in The Tongue and Quill, I find it excellent in keeping me on track with emails and ensuring the recipient is getting the value upfront
NateI read the memo and this came to mind.
I showed it to my wife who works for the government. She agreed nothing has changed in the last 80 years.
Rickard Lind@daringfireball As a non-native english speaker, I find the Smaller War Plants Corporation hard to parse. What would they produce? Weaponized shrubs? Factories churning out skirmishes?
John Gruber@rickardlind Would be easier to understand if it had been pants, not plants.
Brent@gruber @rickardlind
If it were pants, who’s the small war pants customer? Ewoks? Lilliputians? Hobbits?
If it were pants, who’s the small war pants customer? Ewoks? Lilliputians? Hobbits?
Jérôme C
@NoodlesNinja None of those words means exactly what gobbledygook means. Gobbledygook is a type of jargon, but most jargon is not gobbledygook.
@gruber that’s true for so many words: none of their synonyms mean exactly what the reference word means.
And really, you would be able to swap most occurrences of gobbledygook to a chosen word from that list (which extends further by the way) without anyone raising an eyebrow at the resulting sentence.
And really, you would be able to swap most occurrences of gobbledygook to a chosen word from that list (which extends further by the way) without anyone raising an eyebrow at the resulting sentence.
Delric@daringfireball Would this include not using obscure words when a commonly known synonym exists?
@daringfireball Omit needless words!
Tom@daringfireball The irony is they wanted people to use Plain English but they invented a new word in the process 🤷🏼♂️