Mr Wolfe's punctuation may be idiosynchratic, but his ear for corporate gobbledegook is acute.

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But what he really needed was an app that could translate the patent gobbledegook contained in that Lodsys document.

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Begin reading at the wrong base and the whole message will be gobbledegook which could easily include false start and stop signals.

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Every year produces a rich crop of management gobbledegook.

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Unlike most other party leaders at the time, he was good at talking to ordinary people, a skill which would help him win support and then power later, but he also showed no sign of questioning the Marxist-Leninist gobbledegook that he was required to recite at public events.

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