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computerese

[kuhm-pyoo-tuh-reez, -rees] / kəmˌpju təˈriz, -ˈris /


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The play is annotated by a chorus of six performers who speak in the exasperating language of computerese.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2018

I spoke English miserably, but the watch had its own language, a computerese series of squeaks issuing from a tiny Japanese speaker to form passable melodies.

From The New Yorker Mar. 13, 2017

Swatches of poetry are jumbled together with passages of computerese and snippets of mysteriously disembodied conversation.

From Time Magazine Archive

His short book is clogged with computerese, and his economic extrapolations of postwar industrial growth statistics are unconvincing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ziegler, who worked in Haldeman's advertising agency, mixes computerese into his briefings: he talks of "inputs" and "outputs," of "implementing" a policy within a "time frame."

From Time Magazine Archive



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