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by Tade0 437 days ago
Before retirement my father was employed in a company certifying medical devices.

Half the descriptions provided by those who made the devices were this sort of word salad because they concerned products which were obvious scams[0].

On person in particular was editing the description on the fly and was looking for a word so dad jokingly suggested "impedance". "Yes, thank you!" replied that person - her face lighting up as she added the word.

[0] Like a vacuum cleaner which was supposed to dispense a mist of medication. Initially rejected as there was no dosage control whatsoever, but I heard that eventually somehow it was certified.