tech·li·cal·ly
/ˈteklik(ə)lē/
Verb
Attempting to describe something as technical in nature, but being unable to do so due to speaking too quickly.
/ˈteklik(ə)lē/
Verb
Attempting to describe something as technical in nature, but being unable to do so due to speaking too quickly.
Techlically I'm with "that guy".
by The Serna Dictionary January 22, 2013
Get the Techlically mug.A digitallighting tactic that weaponizes technical language to disorient and discredit a target. The perpetrator floods the conversation with jargon, pseudo‑precise metrics, or selective data, then accuses the target of “not understanding” when they struggle to respond. The goal is to make the target appear incompetent while the abuser plays the role of the calm, technically proficient expert. Technicallighting often appears in debates about economics, climate policy, or platform algorithms—anywhere where real complexity can be used to create confusion and exhaust opposition.
Example: “He buried her in acronyms, regression coefficients, and citation titles she’d never seen. When she asked for plain language, he said ‘if you can’t follow basic economics, why are you arguing?’ Technicallighting: using expertise as a cudgel.”
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Get the Technicallighting mug.A form of gaslighting that occurs in technical, academic, or scientific debates, where one party uses jargon, credentialism, or selective citation to make the other doubt their own understanding or sanity. The technicallighter may present a fringe school (e.g., Austrian economics) as “the real science,” dismiss mainstream consensus as “ideological,” and ridicule opponents as “uneducated” or “brainwashed.” They shift goalposts, demand impossible proof, and claim that any disagreement comes from a lack of expertise—not from evidence. Technicallighting turns technical discourse into a weapon of confusion and intimidation.
Example: “The Austrian economist insisted that mainstream macroeconomics was ‘mathematical fiction’ and that anyone who disagreed simply didn’t understand ‘real economics’—technicallighting, using jargon to cloak fringe views in authority.”
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1. Today I was playing wiffle ball with my friends. I hit what I believed to be a towering home run into my neighbors yard, however it was later ruled to be a technical deep fry because the ball was out of play, but was not hit a sufficient distance.
2. I was playing basketball with my friends when the ball rolled into my neighbors yard and into their bushes. We couldn't find it, so we decided it was technically deep fried.
2. I was playing basketball with my friends when the ball rolled into my neighbors yard and into their bushes. We couldn't find it, so we decided it was technically deep fried.
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