Content-free Adj. [by Analogy With Techspeak `context-free'] Used Of A Message That Adds Nothing To The Recipient's Knowledge.

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content-free adj.

[by analogy with techspeak
`context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the
recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied
to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for
communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered
on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps
most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and
other professional manipulators. "Content-free? Uh... that's
anything printed on glossy paper." (See also four-color glossies.) "He gave a t
networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was
content-free."

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