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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>content-free</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="console-jockey.html" title="console jockey"/><link rel="next" href="control-C.html" title="control-C"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">content-free</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="console-jockey.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="control-C.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="content-free"/><dt xmlns="" id="content-free"><b>content-free</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [by analogy with techspeak <span class="firstterm">context-free</span>] 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 <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>, it more usually connotes
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derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are
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centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps
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most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other
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professional manipulators. “<span class="quote">Content-free? Uh... that's
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anything printed on glossy paper.</span>” (See also
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<a href="../F/four-color-glossies.html"><i class="glossterm">four-color glossies</i></a>.) “<span class="quote">He gave a talk on the implications of
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electronic networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It
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was content-free.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="console-jockey.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="control-C.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">console jockey<65></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>control-C</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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