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From: gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Prefrobnicate (was Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs)
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Date: 28 Jan 88 12:03:19 GMT
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What is the definition of prefrobnicate?  Or am I correct in assuming
it is just a nonsense verb used to try to snowjob technical
familiarity, as in:

       Because Gunther had lied about his expertise in hacking GNU
  Emacs, he gambled, "Um, set-buffer versus switch-to-buffer?  Well,
  since set-buffer prefrobnicates the buffer, you should use
  switch-to-buffer in most circumstances.".

which is also used jokingly?
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