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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm Bob Garfield

with Mike Volo, and today we will delve deep into the incomprehensible. Hey, Mikey. Hey, Bobby,

how you doing? Splendid, thank you and your own self. I'm great. I'm great. Happy to hear.

Now, I'd like to cogitate on the envenoming opacity of putative linguistic dexterity,

contrived to avouch preternatural serpians, but ultimately a plethoric display of unbecoming preemptoriness,

or even obfuscating pother or forethought.

What?

What do you mean what? I just said.

Yeah, what you just said was a bunch of gobbledygook.

Aha!

That's our word today. Gobbleygook, which is basically a bunch of nonbbledygook. Aha! That's our word today.

Gobbleygook, which is basically a bunch of nonsense, nonsensical either because the speaker

is showing off with a whole mess of obscure words or jargon that might be legit vocabulary,

but which are unfamiliar to the listener or reader because nobody talks that way.

Or, or because he's trying to camouflage the fact that he doesn't have any idea what the

fuck he's talking about, also known as Double Talk.

And Mike, in the days of vaudeville,

that was actually a fairly common comedy trope.

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