2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/met@/ , /mayt@/ , /meet@/ , pref. [from analytic philosophy] One level of
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description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to
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describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language.
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This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on
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deliberate confusion between meta-levels. See hacker humor.
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