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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>h</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="next" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html" title="ha ha only serious"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">h</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../H.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="h"/><dt xmlns="" id="h"><b>h</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from SF fandom] A method of ‘marking’ common words,
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i.e., calling attention to the fact that they are being used in a
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nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way. Originated in the fannish
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catchphrase “<span class="quote">Bheer is the One True Ghod!</span>” from decades ago.
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H-infix marking of ‘Ghod’ and other words spread into the 1960s
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counterculture via underground comix, and into early hackerdom either from
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the counterculture or from SF fandom (the three overlapped heavily at the
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time). More recently, the h infix has become an expected feature of
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benchmark names (Dhrystone, Rhealstone, etc.); this is probably patterning
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on the original Whetstone (the name of a laboratory) but influenced by the
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fannish/counterculture h infix.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../H.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">H </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ha ha only serious</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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