Talk:Jibber-jabber

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I wanted to propose this for deletion, but damned if the phrase doesn't have 270,000 hits in a google search. --Xyzzyplugh 14:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Actually a recent check returned 774,000 hits in a google search. --Heavy Man 00:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is very Jibber Jabber impressive. (Seamless!)--Crestville 10:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

'Jibber-jabber' as an adverb for 'impressive'? A synonym for 'very'? Sir, your's may be the first documented case. I suggest you seek a government grant to help develop this new linguistic nuance.--Heavy Man 05:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge? Why should this be merged with Mr. T? He's not the only person to use the phrase, he just coined it. If anyone wants to expand this article to help it remain seperate from Mr. T - please go nuts.--Heavy Man 06:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gibber is a real word (verb and noun, according to m-w.com) in the English language, as is jabber (verb only). They both mean about the same thing: hurried, unintelligible speech--gibber having a connotation of foolishness. Did Mr. T really coin this compound phrase that has fallen into the American vernacular? Did he really spell it "jibber" rather than gibber, or is this just a common transcription of his spoken words? Maybe this article belongs in Wiktionary rather than here, and the Mr. T Wikipedia article should interwiki link to it. After all, this is a watershed in the development of English semantics--we better get it right.--hmcnally 23:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article had been merged with "Mr. T", but currently there is no reference in the article about Mr. T anymore. I would suggest to restore the previous article. A redirection from Jibber-jabber to Mr. T without this article mentioning the term is just confusing. --BenediktWildenhain (talk) 11:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just to offer a reason for so many google hits showing up; on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Engagement Reaction" Penny and Sheldon are having a conversation in the laundry room when she implies that he engages in "jibber-jabber" frequently. Sheldon then says, "Do you know why they call it jibber-jabber?" and then Penny says, "Oh my God now you're going to jibber-jabber about jibber-jabber!" The information is never revealed by Sheldon so that is the reason so many people have been looking up the meaning and looking for how the phrase came into being. NativeSonKY (talk) 01:51, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedic vs definition

Would this not be more suited to wiktionary? You can give origion and meaning for the word/phrase without having an encyclopedic article for it that has almost no content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.70.170.48 (talk) 07:45, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree ... this entry would be best served by applying the {{wiktionary redirect}} to point readers to wikt:jibber-jabber, similar to what is done for our entry at Cool beans. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:10, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]