COMMONWEALTH HACKISH


Meaning of COMMONWEALTH HACKISH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.S., esp. 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 variable s include blurgle , eek, ook, frodo, and bilbo; wibble , wobble, and in emergencies wubble; flob, banana, tom, dick, harry, wombat, frog, fish , womble and so on and on (see foo , sense 4).

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 , bogus , bum , chase pointers , cosmic rays , crippleware , crunch , dodgy , gonk , hamster , hardwarily , mess-dos , nybble , proglet , root , SEX , tweak , womble .

Obriged! For full description refer to

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.