The word 'gobbledegook' is correct and usable in written English.
It describes language or writing that is difficult or impossible to understand because it contains words that are made up or used in a confusing manner. Example sentence: His report is filled with gobbledegook; I'm not sure what he was trying to communicate.
To get rid of the dirty gobbledegook he insisted on using, the matron brushed his teeth with bitter Fels-Naptha soap.In vain.
Begin reading at the wrong base and the whole message will be gobbledegook which could easily include false start and stop signals.
But if you are interested in the work of architects who are making change right now, without all the jargon, white papers and gobbledegook, head to the Museum of Modern Art for "Small Scale, Big Change", an inspiring show that opens on October 3rd (reviewed in this week's paper).
Pure electrics will probably display just the watt-hours per mile and perhaps some variation of the utility factor.Even so, such gobbledegook is hardly going to make life easier for motorists thinking of buying a plug-in.
In America, "HD capable" refers to HDTVs with built-in tuners that can decode terrestrial HDTV signals; while a "digital cable ready" HDTV set contains a decoder for HDTV signals delivered via cable.All of this gobbledegook helps to explain HDTV's dirty little secret: that around 80% of HDTV sets are not receiving HDTV broadcasts.
If one of these pieces disappears, Obamacare could break down.The second problem with Obamacare is that its nearly 1,000 pages are written in confusing gobbledegook.
The Plain English Campaign, a British pressure group that fights "against jargon and gobbledegook", especially in official documents, has the right idea, as do the Germans who are pushing for Rechtschreibreform (as complex as that sounds).Hence our call to action.
Written from Kenya, where over 10% of the population needs food aid, it looks at whether the food crisis was avoidable.Back in January, we looked at the phenomenon of NGOish, the jargon-filled gobbledegook so favoured by aid workers.
But for the ordinary Joe, investing is an inscrutable business, fraught with gobbledegook and the potential for unexpected losses.
Their prose is larded with clichés and garbled with gobbledegook.
It reminded me of that brilliant scene in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me when Basil Exposition informs Powers of some plot-line gobbledegook with the advice, "I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself".
