Do you know what is gobbledygook?
Or how about Onomatopoeia?
Before you call Mr Tharoor; lemme try to explain!
Now Onomatopoeia is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as Moo, meow, roar, and chirp! These are literally the voices made by the animal or bird and a Homo Sapien’s version of the same!
In the case of a frog croaking, there is actually a cultural and regional difference! So while the English sound is ribbit for species of frog found in North America; English verb croak is for the common frog!
See how foreign travel can even change the status of a frog!
Not only sounds but there are many words which are actually the spelling of how they sound or perceived to sound! Like hiccup, zoom, bang, beep and splash.
Even machines and their sounds are also often described with onomatopoeia: honk or beep-beep for the horn of an automobile, and vroom or brum for the internal combustion engine.
Even human is not spared! The sound of kiss is MWAH! I can literally hear my daughter saying, “that is so cringe dudda!”
So what is gobbledygook !?
Well, the gobbledygook is a language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms!
You might have heard of the simpler term for it called Gibberish!
So gibberish, also called jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders!
The etymology of gibberish is uncertain. It is generally thought to be an onomatopoeia imitative of speech!
Yes! The irony is that even my blogs can sometimes be construed as gobbledygook! Hopefully not this one! Though it can be confusing like how when I say the sketch is of Sushant Singh and you think Rajput while it is another equally talented actor!
Now say whatever you say for good night in your Onomatopoeic way and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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