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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Diktats? #10139 11/14/2000 10:33 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia Marty enthusiast Marty enthusiast Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted On The Job Language Difficulties WeldonJames 11/12/2000 8:54 AM Re: On The Job Language Difficulties Jackie 11/12/2000 12:10 PM Re: On The Job Language Difficulties wsieber 11/13/2000 8:51 AM Re: On The Job Language Difficulties maverick 11/13/2000 12:59 PM Re: On The Job Language Difficulties of troy 11/13/2000 3:02 PM Death of the business letter? shanks 11/13/2000 3:16 PM Re: Death of the business letter? Jackie 11/13/2000 5:35 PM Re: Death of the business letter? Bingley 11/14/2000 5:48 AM Re: Death of the business letter? maverick 11/14/2000 1:05 PM Re: Death of the business letter? Bingley 11/15/2000 4:45 AM Diktats? Marty 11/14/2000 8:59 PM Re: Diktats? AnnaStrophic 11/14/2000 10:13 PM Re: Diktats? Marty 11/14/2000 10:33 PM Re: On The Job Stress Jackie 11/15/2000 11:59 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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