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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Soundalike Slang</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="construction.html" title="Chapter 4. Jargon Construction"/><link rel="previous" href="verb-doubling.html" title="Verb Doubling"/><link rel="next" href="p-convention.html" title="The -P Convention"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Soundalike Slang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verb-doubling.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 4. Jargon Construction</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="p-convention.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="soundalike-slang"/>Soundalike Slang</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Hackers will often make rhymes or puns in order to convert an ordinary
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word or phrase into something more interesting. It is considered particularly
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<a href="F/flavorful.html"><i class="glossterm">flavorful</i></a> if the phrase is bent so as to include some
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other jargon word; thus the computer hobbyist magazine <i class="citetitle">Dr. Dobb's
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Journal</i> is almost always referred to among hackers as
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‘Dr. Frob's Journal’ or simply ‘Dr. Frob's’. Terms of
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this kind that have been in fairly wide use include names for
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newspapers:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Boston Herald → Horrid (or Harried)</p></li><li><p>Boston Globe → Boston Glob</p></li><li><p>Houston (or San Francisco) Chronicle → the Crocknicle (or
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the Comical)</p></li><li><p>New York Times → New York Slime</p></li><li><p>Wall Street Journal → Wall Street
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Urinal</p></li></ul></div><p>However, terms like these are often made up on the spur of the moment.
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Standard examples include:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Data General → Dirty Genitals</p></li><li><p>IBM 360 → IBM Three-Sickly</p></li><li><p>Government Property — Do Not Duplicate (on keys) →
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Government Duplicity — Do Not Propagate</p></li><li><p>for historical reasons → for hysterical
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raisins</p></li><li><p>Margaret Jacks Hall (the CS building at Stanford) →
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Marginal Hacks Hall</p></li><li><p>Microsoft → Microsloth</p></li><li><p>Internet Explorer → Internet Exploiter</p></li><li><p>FrontPage → AffrontPage</p></li><li><p>VB.NET → VB Nyet</p></li><li><p>Lotus Notes → Lotus Bloats</p></li><li><p>Microsoft Outlook → Microsoft Outhouse</p></li><li><p>Linux → Linsux</p></li><li><p>FreeBSD → FreeLSD</p></li><li><p>C# → C Flat</p></li></ul></div><p>This is not really similar to the Cockney rhyming slang it has been
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compared to in the past, because Cockney substitutions are opaque whereas
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hacker punning jargon is intentionally transparent.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verb-doubling.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="construction.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="p-convention.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Verb Doubling </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> The -P Convention</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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