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Commonwealth Hackish
Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in the
British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth
speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char"
and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to
American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in {newsgroup} names
(especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more
often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh
wib'l/). The prefix {meta} may be pronounced /mee't*/;
similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is
usually /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred {metasyntactic
variables} include {blurgle}, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and
"bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble";
"banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", {fish},
and so on and on (see {foo}).
Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama",
"frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf
city!" "hack-o-rama!" "core dump frenzy!"). Finally, note
that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for
(), [], and {} are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers
"brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets". Also,
the use of "pling" for {bang} is common outside the United
States.
See also {attoparsec}, {calculator}, {chemist}, {console
jockey}, {fish}, {go-faster stripes}, {grunge}, {hakspek},
{heavy metal}, {leaky heap}, {lord high fixer}, {loose bytes},
{muddie}, {nadger}, {noddy}, {psychedelicware}, {plingnet},
{raster blaster}, {RTBM}, {seggie}, {spod}, {sun lounge},
{terminal junkie}, {tick-list features}, {weeble}, {weasel},
{YABA}, and notes or definitions under {Bad Thing}, {barf},
{bum}, {chase pointers}, {cosmic rays}, {crippleware},
{crunch}, {dodgy}, {gonk}, {hamster}, {hardwarily},
{mess-dos}, {nibble}, {proglet}, {root}, {SEX}, {tweak}, and
{xyzzy}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-01-18)