Babble
Babble verb - To speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly.
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
| version | babble version | tell version |
Both words in one sentence
- Doctors in general like to tell the patients their diagnoses as indecipherable Techno Babble if these diagnoses are terrifying enough to endanger the patients' mental health as well.
- Or possibly Magi Babble; it's often hard to tell the difference with that series...
Source: Hammerspace / Literature - Occasionally some Infallible Babble might slip out of them, but Sturgeon's Law applies to the remaining ninety percent, and there's no way to tell which is which.
Source: Talkative Loon
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