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#10138 11/14/00 10:13 PM
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If I had diktats I'd keep them well hidden. Didn't it hurt when you had them done?

...joining Jackie in the gutter, are we?

But seriously, folks, I feel Weldon's pain. Often there is no time to clean up copy. Now, speaking off-thread, I do some part-time editing work for a website manufacturer (as it were) and they pretty much give me free rein. However, they describe what I edit as "verbage." Please, whence this word?? I can't help but see the similarity to "garbage."


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Anna,

Can I redeem myself with a clean and serious post?

OneLook led me to the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:

verbage <spelling, jargon> /ver'b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage". Compare content-free. More pejorative than "verbiage".

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?verbage



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diktats

Was ist das?


from Jackie's favourite, gurunet:

dik·tat (dĭk-tät')
n.
A harsh, unilaterally imposed settlement with a defeated party.
An authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree.

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