Just consider the latest hoax infecting news feeds, the one where users posted legalistic gobbledygook declaring self-protective personal copyright protection.

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Nearly every profession has its own jargon, those words and phrases that can come across as gobbledygook to the untrained ear.

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Described in typical industry gobbledygook as a "multistrategy, market-neutral arbitrage" fund, SRI eked out a net 0.07% return its first six months.

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Certain significant patterns begin to take shape in the mind -- even though the instructions are still gobbledygook and the toy doesn't work.

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Gobbledygook connoisseurs know that this stuff has been around for decades.

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Some of that gobbledygook is the province of tech jocks.

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Though the line was widely criticized by many as gobbledygook, those who stopped to think realized he had very pithily summarized entire books by Nicholas Nassim Taleb about uncertainty and Black Swans.

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Since 1998 Icann, a policy-making group, has controlled domain registration on the Net, logging new sites in an open database called Whois, but the data isn't verified, and even gobbledygook triggers no alarms.

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Management and its gobbledygook joined Neudeutsch long ago.

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Yet for all the legal and accounting gobbledygook with which Mr Armstrong surrounded his announcement, and for all his insistence that the new firms will still be able to co-operate closely and do lots of the bundling that he still yearns for, what is happening is certainly big and should benefit shareholders.

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