Gobbledygook Award

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Gobbledygook 
 
Wordy and generally unintelligible jargon (Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary) 
 
Language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand (Free Online Dictionary) 
 
Gibberish 
 
Pretentious or needlessly obscure language (Merriam Webster OnLine) 
 
Meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing (Dictionary.com) 
 
Jargon 
 
Confused, unintelligible language (Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary) 
 
Obscure and often pretentious language (Merriam Webster OnLine)
 


The Online Gobbledygook Awards

The first Online Gobbledygook, Gibberish and Jargon Awards are now closed. To see this year's winners click here. 
 
Please come back and visit soon. We will start accepting entries for the second contest soon.  
 
Are you fed up with meaningless gobbledygook? Words that mean little or nothing? Empty phrases? Vague writing that confuses rather than communicates? 
 
Now is your chance to fight back against bureaucratese, legalese, technobabble, government-speak and other assaults on the English language. 
 
The Second Online Gobbledygook, Gibberish and Jargon Awards(TM) 
 
These awards will be given to the writers and organizations that produce the best of the worst Gobbledygook:

  • Meaningless phrases
  • Vague generalities
  • Convoluted sentence structure
  • Wordy, unintelligible jargon.
 
Nominate your favorite gobbledygook examples now. Review the criteria here. 
 
The submissions will be judged by people who have distinguished themselves by their commitment to good English. 
 
It is hoped that this award will inspire organizations to look at how they communicate and possibly even improve their writing.  
 
Maybe we can stamp out ─ or at least reduce ─ the amount of gobbledygook in the world.  
 
We can dream, can't we?

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