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by leonheld 867 days ago
> but I honestly suspected somebody is trying to make fun of me with some concentrated technobabble

Let me tell about a revolutionary device called a Turbo encabulator.

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sounds like a perfectly cromulent topic to embiggen our knowledge.
Perfectumentous!
An author named David Duncan wrote a series of books, called A Man of His Word (and A Handful of Men)[0]. Great books.

One of the races in the books was the Anthropophagi (basically modeled on New Guinea headhunters). They talked like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Duncan_(writer)

You joke, but this is surprisingly close to the name given to Dumbledore in the Dutch translation of Harry Potter.
supercali ...
You joke but newer rails versions come with a front end framework named Turbo, and there's also a JS bundler named Turbo, so this is actually too close to reality