[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[Jon]

Your's had none.

Jon

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David Spitzer wrote:

> 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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