[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[johngalt]

Paul Scott wrote:
> 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.

If memory serves right, abend was an IBM mainframe term originally