Re: I need a term for....
- From: Prai Jei <pvstownsend.zyx.abc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:33:43 +0000
ken set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum:
Is there a term for inventing phoney text that pretends to be in a
technical
language, but is really meaningless?
For example that famous paper (can't remember the citation) that made
fun of Deconstruction and was actually published as a genuine
paper in/on Deconstruction before the writer(s)
admitted it was totally phoney and meaningless.
I'm not after Deconstruction, I just read a passage from a sci-fi
novel (slipstream subgenre, 'The Raw Shark Texts' - pun on
Rorschach Tests - that purports to be some kind of
psychological linguistic well, strange - and makes no
sense at all but seems scientific.
Jabberwocky, after the Lewis Carroll original?
Brian Aldiss' short story "Shards" adopts this style while nevertheless
remaining a readable, understandable, visualisable story.
Douglas Hofstadter's books make numerous references to a journal called "Art
Language" which appears to be full of such outpourings.
As an example of the genre, try the technical spec for the Turboencabulator:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ids/dotdot/misc/jokes/turboencabulator.txt
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