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Technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the [impression] that something has been said. The word, [not to be confused with] the broader term, "bullshit," was coined by author Neal Stephenson in his speculative-fiction novel Anathem. According to Stephenson, people who use this type of rhetoric are "more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them." Ironically, people who use this seemingly [confrontational] term can be "excluded from polite discourse, unless they say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself. The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt." Source: Anathem (appendix: glossary) Neal Stephenson, 2008.
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