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The Times (of London, by default, of course) ran the eye-catching headline, \u201cHow gibberish put scientists to shame\u201d (April 6, 2005). One of the students, Jeremy Stribling, explains how they had developed a computer program to generate random sequences of technobabble in order to confirm their suspicions that papers of dubious academicity were bypassing serious, or indeed, any scrutiny. In fact, the students claim ulterior, financial motives behind this lack of proper peer review. 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Technically we have grammatical words and concrete words. Grammatical words such as then or or perform (possibly) vital structural and semantic duties without \"naming\" particular things or concepts. In this context love and phlogiston are rated as concrete. Amazingly (to outsiders!) words can over time shift between (or maybe straddle) these two categories. The more common transition is when a concrete word becomes grammatical. What better than to call this process grammaticalization? John McWhorter (The Story of Human Language The Teaching Company 2004) is fond of citing the French pas (concrete step) grammaticalizing into not. An open question: Were all grammatical words including prefixes and suffixes originally concrete?  Here's a relevant example of how a well-defined technical term familiar within the trade can come across to the unversed as an abomination a gross mangling of decent English a Bushism even or at least the product of some damned Yankee. Technically we have grammatical words and concrete words. Grammatical words such as then or or perform (possibly) vital structural and semantic duties without \"naming\" particular things or concepts. In this context love and phlogiston are rated as concrete. Amazingly (to outsiders!) words can over time shift between (or maybe straddle) these two categories. The more common transition is when a concrete word becomes grammatical. What better than to call this process grammaticalization? John McWhorter (The Story of Human Language The Teaching Company 2004) is fond of citing the French pas (concrete step) grammaticalizing into not. An open question: Were all grammatical words including prefixes and suffixes originally concrete?"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"I thought some of you might need help with this one. I learned it from the Cambridge philosopher Simon Blackburn (author of Lust and out soon Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed) although peristalsis is a medical euphemism: successive waves of involuntary contractions passing along the walls of a hollow muscular structure esp. the intestine and forcing the contents onward. In three words: uncontrolled bowel movement.  I thought some of you might need help with this one. I learned it from the Cambridge philosopher Simon Blackburn (author of Lust and out soon Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed) although peristalsis is a medical euphemism: successive waves of involuntary contractions passing along the walls of a hollow muscular structure esp. the intestine and forcing the contents onward. In three words: uncontrolled bowel movement."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","unstructured":"Littlewood D. E. 1949. The Skeleton Key of Mathematics---A Simple Account of Complex Algebraic Theories. Hutchinson & Co. Republished 2002 Dover Publications Mineola NY. Dover Publications continues its good works: making earlier classics available at reasonable prices.  Littlewood D. E. 1949. The Skeleton Key of Mathematics---A Simple Account of Complex Algebraic Theories. Hutchinson & Co. Republished 2002 Dover Publications Mineola NY. Dover Publications continues its good works: making earlier classics available at reasonable prices."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","unstructured":"A disconcerting example hit me last night listening to an audio CD of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with my player inadvertently left in shuffle (random) mode. Fortunately I know the plot well enough to notice that Elizabeth and Darcy seemed to have shacked up naughtily in Pemberley before he had successfully proposed. But I plan to shuffle through William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch as soon as possible.  A disconcerting example hit me last night listening to an audio CD of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with my player inadvertently left in shuffle (random) mode. 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