[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[David Spitzer]

There was only one word in your list

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Scott [mailto:waterhorse at ultrasw.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:31 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

James Hood wrote:
> My fiancee is doing a report for a German linguistics class and needs your
help. She is doing an experiment on the influence of the German language on
Hacker slang. You don't have to be a Hacker slang affitionado to
participate. All I need you to do is look at the following list of words and
for each word, mark (a) whether you've seen or used the word as Hacker slang
and (b) what you think the meaning of the slang implies. Some of the terms
are pretty obvious, but just humor us. ;-) Also, if you have any additional
terms to add to the list (that you think/know are derived from German), feel
free to add as many as you want.
> 
> List:
> 
> 1) abend

While abend is German for evening it is short for abnormal ending in 
English hackerland.

Paul Scott


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