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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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In reply to:
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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