[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[Josh Miller]

Venturing even further OT, how do you all pronounce "kludge"?

I've heard it like "kloodge", and also rhyming with "mud"

-Josh

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:14, Quag7 wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:11, Jim Secan wrote:
> > At 10:58 AM 12/02/03 -0700, TR wrote:
> > >> 9) kluge
> > >used    Clever, either/both an elegant solution or an ugly hack to some
> > >problem.
> > 
> > Odd, I've never seen/used this as anything but a derogatory comment,
> > perhaps with a twinge of "but there's no other choice."  Not that I haven't
> > generated my share of kluges - these typically arise when there's no time
> > for elegance, or even testing.
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> Well you know, if your dam springs a leak, and you stick your finger in
> the hole to prevent a watery apocalypse, that's a kluge.  Seeing as how
> you stopped the said watery apocalypse, it's hard to consider that
> derogatory.  Of course, to your point, a cement plug would probably be
> better.
> 
>   -C 
> 
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