transcription, транскрипция: [ /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. ]
Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious , drool-proof paper , WIMP environment , for the rest of us .