technobabble

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Yet at the same time, the film depends so profoundly on Japanese anime-styled technobabble, which is so alien to Western SF that, outside of the context of animation, it sounds ridiculous, and the film's English subtitles, originally directly translated, had to be adapted to make it conform reasonably to Western SF consumers 'expectations.

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  1. noun Technical jargon: "The playwright can send up the garbled technobabble of modern bureaucracy as expertly as anyone” (Peter Marks).

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  • He had the kind of technobabble that could bleed money out of venture capitalists down pat, and though Daniel admired that skill in its proper place, he expected a higher insight-to-bullshit ratio now that Lucien was on his payroll. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • There's still plenty here that's dull, and just as much that is patently ridiculous (of which the Claw's technobabble-based Birthday System takes the cake). —  Anime News Network
  • Gone are the technobabble, disco-themed costumes and Egyptian helmets of the original series.
  • Yet at the same time, the film depends so profoundly on Japanese anime-styled technobabble, which is so alien to Western SF that, outside of the context of animation, it sounds ridiculous, and the film's English subtitles, originally directly translated, had to be adapted to make it conform reasonably to Western SF consumers 'expectations. —  gordsellar.com
  • Saturn's Children, adds a funny nuance to this -- Western SF is, in its way, also adapting similar Japanese-anime-sounding technobabble (Stross uses the term "soul chips" to describe personality / memory backups for a given mecha, amidst other bows and nods to Japanese SF and culture, like "bishojo" robots being dominant in his post-human extinction mecha society). —  gordsellar.com
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