Meaning of cryptobabble | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Communication that is in code or encrypted, and therefore not comprehensible.
   uncountable
2. Technical jargon or pseudolanguage that seems incomprehensible.
   uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“His mathbabble is as bad as his cryptobabble.”

“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.”

“Now, this may look like meaningless cryptobabble, but it is in fact very funny to adolescent geeks.”

“The cryptobabble is four times as long as the message itself!”

“Permadi foresees victory for Megawati, framing his prediction in Nostradamus-like cryptobabble: “There will be disruptions and chaos before or after the elections,” he said in a Reuters interview.”

“What the heck is that cryptobabble supposed to mean?”

“And if you want to hear “cryptobabble” – crusts talk all the time, she says—“you have to be very quiet and put your ear right next to the ground. You’ll hear this faint murmuring.””

“More cryptobabble which means nothing.”

“Yes it has already been determined to be official snake oil by sci.crypt. The same is true about heaps of other highly marketed systems supported by meaningless cryptobabble and challenges that hide the exact details of the algorithm being used.”

“Using typical military cryptobabble the commanders had assured the pilots that this threat would be neutralised.”

“What I make out of it is that you are posting some nonsense cryptobabble to make yourself seem more intelligent and mysterious.”

“Much more fun was Jack Hunter, a new Indiana Jones-style action drama packed with sweat, guns and crypto[-]babble.”

“Your entire participation here is only an attempt at playing a pointless, endless, nonsensical Usenet game in which you try to suck in suckers by writing nothing but a lot of cryptobabble.”

“Today, most sophisticated financial practitioners privately admit that they have to re-read the forms before client meetings because of the complications underlying them.... It’s crypto[-]babble....”

“See if you can recognize them in this hilarious cryptobabble from North American sophomores.”

“I threw my hands wide, fed up with all the crypto-babble.”

“You survived the cryptobabble section of the book.”

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