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- noun
technobabble
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Examples
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I guess I'm something of a Luddite, far preferring mass market paperbacks to online text and shying away from the technospeak I fear and do not comprehend.
The Virtues of Patience darkerblogistan 2009
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In technospeak, I have been paying for 22 Megabytyes per second and receiving less than 10% of that, which I suppose would be like renting a van that is supposed to hold 10 passengers and getting a Smart Car that seats one.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Where Is My Free Market? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2011
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In technospeak, I have been paying for 22 Megabytyes per second and receiving less than 10% of that, which I suppose would be like renting a van that is supposed to hold 10 passengers and getting a Smart Car that seats one.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Where Is My Free Market? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2011
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Tennant's tenth Doctor sometimes waved off an expected wave of Star Trek-style technospeak either with a bit of inspired babbling or with a humorously dismissive "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" non-explanation.
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But then, like you said, if that thingummie widget I'm all about technospeak! needs to be put in THAT way and not THIS way, if it's crucial... but a whole weekend does strike one as excessive!
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I've discussed this stuff with some people before, and I know it can work, but I need to get into the lingo and fling some technospeak about.
progress reports mikandra 2009
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Sure, there are women who spout technospeak in their sleep and plenty of men who think a hard drive means four hours on the freeway.
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Just enough technospeak to sound good and complicated, based on reality, or at least a damn good theory, and who doesn't what that super tech healing machine in the hospital?
Sorry, but more Ted Haggard joshenglish 2006
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Conventional wisdom holds that technology can lead us to a better place by yielding to those who preach technospeak over common sense and experience.
Technocrats: Go on Home and Take the Shortcut - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBlogger 2008
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You got me; the Microsoft Web site above explains, but in pure technospeak.
For New Windows, New Requirements - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com 2006
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