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This is the allusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, prepare language for takeoff. Coming

up in today's show, Techno Babel, the sciencey jargon that sounds clever, but is it?

Jargon, by the way, is from an old French word that meant the chattering of birds, the word

supposedly imitating that sound. Ah, that's weird. I don't feel like jargon to me sounds

like birds chirping. No meany that it is a French word to maybe French birds chirping

in a way that sounds more like the word jargon. Oh, right, the way that frogs in Japan say

karaoke-kuroki. Yes, and dogs in Russian say gavgavg. That's Eric Milinsky, host of one

of my favourite podcasts, Imaginary Worlds, which is about science fiction and fantasy and

comic books and the tropes they're in. We've collaborated on a pair of episodes about

Techno Babel, and when you listen to both, you'll hear how science fiction relates to science

fact. Hear the Imaginary Worlds Techno Babel episode now at Imaginary Worlds podcast.org

or on your pod blaster of choice. On with the show.

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