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  • noun technobabble

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    William Bradley: Doctor Who: The Long Goodbye 2010

  • 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!

    No Back Talk - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    MEN, WOMEN & COMPUTERS 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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