Word: gibberish
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Large corporations have never had a lot of credibility when investors have attempted to interpret their predictions. The comments from Intel's CEO were gibberish. His business is dead, but for some reason he implies that the activity in his customer base is improving...
...change comes from the bottom up" to his admonitions about "an era of profound irresponsibility," Obama called for change in Americans. And not just in bankers or insurers - in all of us. His Zen koan, "We are the change we've been waiting for," may sound like New Age gibberish, but it's at the core of his agenda...
...racial slur at random. The first baby to do so popped its head through a hole in the board, babbling incomprehensibly and occasionally saying the word “nigger” very clearly. She was joined by a second baby who took an angry tone with his gibberish and exclamations of “nigger.”Two screaming babies followed and eventually two more joined them. Their disagreement was silenced when one baby snorted a great throaty wad and spit it right into another baby’s face. The babies all spat at each other...
...linguistics professor at Illinois State University, and in addition to cultural observations like the ones above, he spends a lot of time reveling in his passion for sentences and structure. The Pirahãs language contains just eight consonants and three vowels; their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that "recursion...
...role to play in the U.S. economy. The pharmaceutical industry, for instance, surely welcomes the annual jump in demand for anti-migraine pills and other tranquilizers that anticipate Tax Day’s arrival. Perhaps the streets are safer with people locked up in their rooms reading bureaucratic gibberish, filing forms, or waiting in enormous lines at a post office...