I’ve lost 11 lbs and gone over 150 miles, but it’s boring to ride the exercycle, so today I pulled my pb Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus (c. 1946) off the shelf. Turned to UNMEANINGNESS. Thought of this morning’s news story on Al-Jazeera deciding to forbid “terrorist” and “terrorism” from its new stories. Of course, the President and Secretary of State’s spokestaff (Marie Harf and Jen Psaki) have already done that. Here’s what I saw:
Absence of meaning
drivel
senselessness, empty sound
nonsense
jargon
gibberish
bombast
balderdash
babble
inanity
twaddle
trash
rubbish
absurdity
imbecility
folly
ambiguity, vagueness
gibber jabber
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