cryptobabble

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Communication that is in code or encrypted, and therefore not comprehensible.

   • Just knowing that he has heard cryptobabble is enough to bring teams of assassins to Switzerland to silence the November Man, who had sworn off spywork to please Rita Macklin, his live-in lover.
   • Cryptobabble: How Encryption Export Disputes Are Shaping Free Speech for the New Millennium
   • The other day, this jackass cryptographer who sits next to me at work f-sound what looked like a p-p-password in an old Gmail message, mixed in with a bunch of cryptobabble.
2. 2

   Technical jargon or pseudolanguage that seems incomprehensible.

   • If the abbreviations begin to look like typical database cryptobabble, you needn’t bother with them, if you don’t mind typing in full sentences, which do approximate the mother tongue rather closely.
   • I've noticed that a certain biostatistician that I occasionally work with always talks in similar cryptobabble with me.
   • Like most scientific specialties, the sequence alignment field uses a technical vocabulary that it greatly helps to learn. This does not make it cryptobabble.

The neighborhood

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