Tuesday, September 16, 2008

W o t D : bafflegab

Bafflegab n sl The professional logorrhoea of many polititions, officials and sales people, characterised by prolix abstract circumlocution and/or a profusion of obstruse technical terminology, used as a means of persuasion, pacification or obfuscation

1st day at school today and I am struggling with a ridiculous new language
We are no longer allowed a library it is a learning resource center
We are no longer allowed a reception, it is an information center
On Friday I will be attending my first proper lecture which is entitled 'visual culture and contemporary communication' WTF is that? I wonder if I need to take my note book or my paints?

Jo has coincidentally also just started school, but on the other side of the fence as it were. She says they no longer have non-fiction books they are non-chronological reports.

Oh honestly!

I am off to the learning resource center to ask the lady in the information center whether she has any non-chronological reports about bafflegab



Aaaaargh! And now I find myself incensed by Google not realising that bafflegab is a word.

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