computerese

noun

Definition of computeresenext
as in legalese

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  1. legalese
  2. bureaucratese
  3. psychobabble
  4. gobbledygook
  5. technobabble
  6. gibberish
Noun
  • Difficult Language The first thing that many readers will notice is that both of these documents are written, essentially, in legalese.
    John Werner, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The website may have high-minded ideals, but their termination agreements are full of hard-nosed legalese.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 18 May 2024
Definition of legalese
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Definition of bureaucratese
Noun
  • This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
Definition of psychobabble
Noun
  • Roberts’s majority opinion is pure gobbledygook The Bruen decision placed an enormously high burden on any government lawyer trying to convince a court that any gun law is constitutional.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024
  • Others claimed the leaks were just artificial intelligence gobbledygook.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
Definition of gobbledygook
Noun
  • Simplification is about presenting information in a manner that best resonates with an audience and putting aside technobabble that may be confusing.
    Steve Durbin, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • That’s because the plot is a lumpy stew of familiar elements, given minimal narrative clarity despite the reams of expository technobabble spouted by Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Paradox.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
Definition of technobabble
Noun
  • In addition to all that work, Coffin voices the demented gibberish spewed by the Minions, the bright yellow creatures who work alongside Gru. Renaud, who co-helmed the fourth installment with Patrick Delage, says that the French influence was also there from the start.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • For example, at one point the voice suddenly sped up and spewed gibberish.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Definition of gibberish
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