Word of the Day: Verbigeration
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OK, I had an idea of what this $25 word meant when U of M professor Eva von Dassow used it in her speech to regents last month, but I just had to look it up.
verbigeration: n. the constant or obsessive repetition of meaningless words or phrases, as in mental illness.
Example: All of the verbigeration about excellence, about strategic investments, about ... quality and so on is deployed to obscure the goal of using the present financial crisis as a tool for starving certain parts of the university in order to feed others.
It's at the 1:40 mark in the video.
I have got to incorporate this word into my vocabulary.
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