technobabble
technospeak

This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you.

That broke the dam and got the technobabble going again.

Other science fiction movies and literature have their own form of technobabble.

I made sure they were crammed with lots of jargon and technobabble.

When used in this way, technobabble is considered pretentious and often unacceptable.

Then he opened his mouth to spit out a bare minimum of technobabble.

But who would want to hear me spout off a load of technobabble?"

Well, this technobabble all sounds great, but you know what this means?"

"Why are you just standing around up here throwing all this technobabble around?

The explanation of the supposed product makes extensive use of technobabble.

Plotting and technobabble were mentioned as other detrimental facets of Part 2.

Such talk seems like so much technobabble.

He didn't want to bury her in technobabble.

AR talks incredibly slowly in a sort of technobabble.

Authors and others who wish to convey a feeling of technical sophistication may write or talk in technobabble.

You've extracted all the Autoverse technobabble from me you could possibly need.

"There is one other thing," said Leigh Hunt, his soft voice almost lost under the technobabble of the combat center.

Sometimes Weaver's technobabble could try a saint.

"He has this ability to make wild concepts understandable, and he is one of the few people who can really pull off that technobabble."

Again," but with a key new element, a series of humorous broadsides against what is called "technobabble."

There are several forms of technobabble.

Have Data whip up some technobabble.

While his companion spewed technobabble, he glanced around at the Borg's sprawling habitat.

Snake oil salespeople may use "technobabble" to sell their product since cryptography is a complicated subject.

Technobabble is still largely embedded in the speech and writing of a few million people associated with the industry, universities and research centers.

In one sense it is merely another bit of technospeak.

The people who wrote the manual and the online help files "are fluent only in technospeak," she said.

Instead, technospeak involves layering new meanings over familiar words.

In technospeak, this means Java is a cross-platform environment.

And you need time to grasp the mind-clouding technospeak to which winegrowers are addicted.

In the heyday of technospeak, though, sometimes the rhetoric cart got ahead of the product horse.

The companies are also hawking their different technologies, which sometimes leads to a technospeak babble in the marketing materials.

To trace the path of new-economy investing, fast feet and a good line of technospeak are required.

She's swapping technospeak with rocket scientists, hellbent on creating her very own android.

The Clintonites talk technospeak, often at length.

I am baffled by technospeak, the language of all the men in my family, and so I enlisted my two brothers to go with me.

Even today, as technology and terminology race forward, keeping on top of technospeak remains a delicate blend of science and art.

"Sailor technospeak is much older than your kind of jargon, Sergeant," she said, not unkindly but with a wicked glint in her eye.

That is technospeak for reading through critical code line by line for possible errors missed during earlier repairs or testing.

The 1980's gave us the hyperbole of technospeak - with buzzwords like "liposome," "collagen" and "non-comedogenic" flooding the cosmetics counters.

"They believe that just because of the technospeak it's going to happen, but it's not," said Mr. Spindler, who fears a backlash from customers if the reality of future technology fails to live up to the promises.

Technobabble (a portmanteau of technology and babble), also called technospeak, is a form of jargon that uses buzzwords, esoteric language, specialized technical terms, or technical slang that is incomprehensible to the listener.

Fursenko could tell that this flurry of aeronautical technospeak was giving his young boss a headache, so he quickly decided to conclude with more or less happy news: "But we have repaired the damage, and I think we can be ready to fly."

Poor Tom: it's bad enough that he works in a place where the small talk is pure technospeak ("if the laser read-write heads are out of sync with the m-subset instructions off the controller chip, what is that going to mean for us, in terms of down time?")

In the deep pile, there was nothing about Eskimos on cell phones, but I found an awful lot about cutting Argentine pensions by 13 per cent, breaking up unions in Brazil ... and raising water prices in Bolivia, all laid out in chilling technospeak and stamped "for official use only".