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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

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The word Protocol ... is ... employed to signify the forms to be observed in the official correspondence of the minister for foreign affairs, and in the drafting of diplomatic documents, such as treaties, conventions, declarations, full powers, ratifications, letters of credence and other letters addressed by one head of state to another.  1, record 1, English, - protocol

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Chancellery protocol, the object of which is to give the recipients of correspondence the marks of distinction which are due them, at the same time respects the relative rank between sender and addressee. It is established in such a manner as to place the relations between states and their representatives on a basis of equality, respect and reciprocal consideration. It is the duty of representatives to exercise the greatest care in observing these rules.  2, record 1, English, - protocol

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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Ensemble des règles, usages et pratiques que les Gouvernements et leurs représentants observent dans leurs rapports ainsi que dans la rédaction des traités et autres actes diplomatiques.  1, record 1, French, - protocole

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"L'ensemble des formes dans lesquelles l'usage veut que les communications diplomatiques soient faites, surtout par écrit, constitue ce qu'on appelle, dans une acception spéciale, le style diplomatique : on dit aussi style de chancellerie, style de cour, protocole diplomatique, protocole de chancellerie(...) C'est le cérémonial des négociations, et principalement des négociations écrites. "  1, record 1, French, - protocole

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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"gibberish": Unintelligible speech belonging to no known language, and supposed to be of arbitrary invention; inarticulate chatter, jargon.  3, record 2, English, - gibberish

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double Dutch: a language that one does not understand, gibberish.  3, record 2, English, - gibberish

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... Borges describes the world as a library filled with an unimaginably vast number of books, each with the same number of pages and the same number of letters on each page. The library contains a single copy of every possible book, every possible permutation of letters. People spend their lives sorting through this ocean of gibberish for the incalculably rare books whose random arrays of letters form something meaningful....  4, record 2, English, - gibberish

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"gibberish": Often applied contemptuously to blundering or ungrammatical language, to obscure and pretentious verbiage, etc.  3, record 2, English, - gibberish

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

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«baragouin» (terme familier) : Langage incorrect et inintelligible, et, par ext., langue que l’on ne comprend pas et qui paraît barbare.  5, record 2, French, - baragouin

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«charabia» : Langage, style incompréhensible et incorrect. [...] [En particulier :] Langage spécialisé, technique, difficilement accessible. [Par exemple :] Le charabia freudo-marxiste. Charabia diplomatique.  5, record 2, French, - baragouin

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«jargonnerie» (néologisme) : Ensemble de propos peu intelligibles.  4, record 2, French, - baragouin

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«C’est de l’hébreu pour moi» : cela m’est inintelligible (sans doute à cause des caractères de l’écriture). [On peut aussi employer «C’est du chinois» dans ce sens].  5, record 2, French, - baragouin

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On nous fait grâce de Kafka, qu’il va chercher à la rescousse et d’autres jargonneries du genre : «Albeyrich est-il «les dessous» de Wotan, sa zone d’ombre et de labeur ?» [Source : Le Canard Enchaîné, 13 avril 88, page 6].  6, record 2, French, - baragouin

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Tous les termes en vedette ne sont pas parfaitement synonymes. «Baragouin» (familier) est celui qui se rapproche le plus de l’anglais, de même que «charabia», plus neutre. «Jargonnerie» est inusité et, enfin, «hébreu» a un sens légèrement différent, comme l’illustre l’expression ci-haut.  4, record 2, French, - baragouin

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