Chrysler turbo encabulator double-speak satire ad

My ham radio buddy Rob sent this YouTube video that is a great satire of technical doublespeak. If you want to know how we sound to our bosses and spouses and kids, well here it is. Good thing Early voltage only affects common mode rejection ratio and not noise gain. See? That was real tech-speak and it makes about as much sense as this Chrysler ad does to most people. Rob noted:

Pretty good, but I thought these things used a klystron relay in orthogonal conjunction with the stator and that to couple the power an integrator excavator coil was required. Oh well, what do I know? Look under the hood of a modern automobile? I used to think that my ‘63 Impala with 327 V8 was complex. HAH!!

So next time you try to explain some subtle technical issue to your friends, remember you might as well be speaking French, or maybe that African dialect where you cluck you tongue on the roof of your mouth. And now you know why it is bad to pepper your explanations with the words “basically” or “essentially”. That is incredibly condescending. You are saying that you are so smart and the person you are explaining it to is a moron. If you can not explain something exactly instead of basically, without jargon and confabulation, you probably do not understand it yourself.

[Update] Dave Wright, guru engineer for Bob Ballard’s Black Sea exploration, sent along a nice wikipedia link about the encabulator that shows it goes back to the 1940s and crosses several companies.