Understanding Athelind's Argot: FNORD
Mar. 14th, 2011 06:06 amWikipedia has a surprisingly good, succinct and precise explanation of a concept that is supposed to be deliberately inconcise and obfuscating. It begins:
And it goes on from there.
Kind of sounds like the mission statement of Fox News, doesn't it?
So what sounds better: "Fnord News" or "Fnox News"?
Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a worldwide conspiracy.
And it goes on from there.
Kind of sounds like the mission statement of Fox News, doesn't it?
So what sounds better: "Fnord News" or "Fnox News"?