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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bang</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bandwidth.html" title="bandwidth"/><link rel="next" href="bang-on.html" title="bang on"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bandwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang-on.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bang"/><dt xmlns="" id="bang"><b>bang</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Common spoken name for
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<tt class="literal">!</tt> (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a
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<a href="bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang path</i></a> in spoken hackish. In <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder
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days</i></a> this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford
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hackers preferring <a href="../E/excl.html"><i class="glossterm">excl</i></a> or
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<a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>; but the spread of Unix has carried
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‘bang’ with it (esp. via the term <a href="bang-path.html"><i class="glossterm">bang
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path</i></a>) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for
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<tt class="literal">!</tt>. Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic
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written <tt class="literal">!</tt>; one would not say “<span class="quote">Congratulations
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bang</span>” (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to
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specify the exact characters “<span class="quote">foo!</span>” one would speak “<span class="quote">Eff
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oh oh bang</span>”. See <a href="../S/shriek.html"><i class="glossterm">shriek</i></a>,
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<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> An exclamation
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signifying roughly “<span class="quote">I have achieved enlightenment!</span>”, or
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“<span class="quote">The dynamite has cleared out my brain!</span>” Often used to
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acknowledge that one has perpetrated a <a href="../T/thinko.html"><i class="glossterm">thinko</i></a>
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immediately after one has been called on it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bandwidth.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bang-on.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bandwidth </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bang on</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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