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content-free
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adj. [by analogy with techspeak context-free ] Used of a message that adds
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nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes
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applied to flamage , it more usually connotes derision for communication
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styles that exalt form over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant
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to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to
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speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators.
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Content-free? Uh... that's anything printed on glossy paper. (See also
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four-color glossies. ) He gave a talk on the implications of electronic
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networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was
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content-free.
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