Thanks heaps, Obsidian-still, what I'm hoping for is the full name of the dumps-eg Sewapura Municipal Urban Body Waste Disposal Facility-it's for a piece of fiction, and I'd like the flavour of the local officialese.
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Another explanation is that the " c " comes from a mannerism in High German officialese of writing unnecessary letters, a so-called " Letternh�ufelung " ( lit . : letter accumulation, as was done sometimes in English with words such as " doubt " ).
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The word " gibberish " is more commonly applied to informal speech, while " gobbledygook " ( sometimes " gobbledegook ", " gobbledigook " or " gobbledegoo " ) is more often applied to writing or language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms . " Officialese ", " legalese ", or " bureaucratese " are forms of gobbledygook.
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Reviewers responded favourably . " The Times Literary Supplement ", praised the book and engaged in a little mock-officialese of its own : " It deserves to be a'best seller'( or perhaps we should say that in all the circumstances it may reasonably be anticipated that it will be found to evoke a relatively considerable demand on the part of the general public ) . " " The Times " devoted a leader to the work, and concluded, " for all its cool urbanity " Plain Words " is written with missionary zeal ".
