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Commonwealth Hackish n. Hacker jargon as spoken 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 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 often
/bee't*/, zeta is often /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred
metasyntactic variable s include
blurgle , `eek',
`ook', `frodo', and `bilbo'; `wibble',
`wobble', and in emergencies `wubble'; `banana',
`wombat', `frog',
fish , 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 , and
xyzzy .
