Daring FireballMar 19, 2024
‘Lengthy Memoranda and Gobbledygook Language’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/18/gobbledygook
‘Lengthy Memoranda and Gobbledygook Language’

Link to: https://archive.org/details/Maverick1944MemoAboutGobbledygook

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Show threadRickard LindMar 19, 2024
@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?
Show threadJohn Gruber
@rickardlind Would be easier to understand if it had been pants, not plants.
Mar 19, 2024 at 4:48pmIvory for iOS
Show threadBrentMar 19, 2024
@gruber @rickardlind
If it were pants, who’s the small war pants customer? Ewoks? Lilliputians? Hobbits?