CloudFlare, one such start-up, has developed a service called Maze, which it proudly describes as "a virtual labyrinth of gibberish and gobbledygook".
Beneath his modernising glitz and occasional new-age gobbledygook, he is an old-fashioned, pragmatic gradualist.
Whether it leads to better teaching or more knowledgeable students is another matter entirely.Ethan Hollander Crawfordsville, IndianaSIR – How distressing to learn that Africa's newest country "already knows the gobbledygook of aid".
(Many of those who make less than that will qualify for Medicaid, a public health programme for the poor).Amazingly, it took nearly 1,000 pages of gobbledygook to turn this framework into the law of the land excluding the much larger volume of supplementary regulations.
"You know there's a complex spatial and social balance, as Lincoln observed back when the population of the USA was 30m, the same as ours".That was typical Ghani learned, right-minded and defiant; but also prone to a sort of development gobbledygook that can raise doubts about the feasibility of his plans.
This is because anybody who uses a personal computer with operating software that cannot recognise the Japanese kanji and kana scripts and seven out of eight PCs in the world cannot gets gobbledygook when he dials into a Japanese Web site or news group.
Away with gobbledygook and pomposity, though "a final example of pomposity, perhaps, is this memorandum itself".
That gobbledygook is code for something different: a wish to maximise the parliament's clout in future fights with the commission and the 27 national governments.By banding together, the three biggest groups can wield an absolute majority of votes in the 736-strong parliament.
A BBC comedy, "W1A", sends up blame-shifting managers and corporate gobbledygook at the nation's broadcaster.
A series of such texts, each building on knowledge gleaned from the previous attack, gradually builds up the whole number.The victim of such an attack will probably not realise something is wrong until he looks at the decrypted text and realises it is gobbledygook.
But in fact the men were brothers under the skin and worthy counterweights to each other: big thinkers who took subjects too often synonymous with platitudes and gobbledygook, and, by dint of a lot of hard twisting, wrung some sense out of them.
