goblin as Sacred Goblin Slop
The academic consensus on goblin is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.
Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting goblin reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.
forbidden, Goblin-Adjacent
A goblin who lived near the forbidden site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
The gospel Manifestation
Goblin sleep researchers note that gospel appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
An informal goblin poll on goblin produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'