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Soundalike Slang
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Hackers will often make rhymes or puns in order to convert an ordinary word
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or phrase into something more interesting. It is considered particularly
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flavorful if the phrase is bent so as to include some other jargon word;
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thus the computer hobbyist magazine Dr. Dobb's Journal is almost always
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referred to among hackers as Dr. Frob's Journal or simply Dr. Frob's. Terms
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of this kind that have been in fairly wide use include names for newspapers:
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Boston Herald Horrid (or Harried) Boston Globe Boston Glob Houston (or San
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Francisco) Chronicle the Crocknicle (or the Comical) New York Times New
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York Slime Wall Street Journal Wall Street Urinal However, terms like these
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are often made up on the spur of the moment. Standard examples include: Data
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General Dirty Genitals IBM 360 IBM Three-Sickly Government Property Do
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Not Duplicate (on keys) Government Duplicity Do Not Propagate for
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historical reasons for hysterical raisins Margaret Jacks Hall (the CS
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building at Stanford) Marginal Hacks Hall Microsoft Microsloth Internet
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Explorer Internet Exploiter FrontPage AffrontPage VB.NET VB Nyet Lotus
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Notes Lotus Bloats Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outhouse Linux Linsux
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FreeBSD FreeLSD C# C Flat This is not really similar to the Cockney
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rhyming slang it has been compared to in the past, because Cockney
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substitutions are opaque whereas hacker punning jargon is intentionally
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transparent.
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