On 2003-01-15, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Guy Baruch wrote: > > > I would say something phonetically close to the word "hacker". > > If you look at the "The Jargon Dictionary : The Meaning of `Hack'" > <URL: http://info.astrian.net/jargon/Hacker_Folklore/The_Meaning_of_Hack.html > > you see the following definition: > Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of > ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork > job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the > cleverness that went into it. > > I think the Hebrew (slang) verb "tachmen" (����) fits nicely. > The related nouns are easly derived from it (e.g. happy hacking - > tichmun na'im - ����� ����). This has the advantage that the its > established conotation is very close to hacking as we want it to be: > changing the system by its own rules, not by breaking it or the law. > Indeed, quite appropriate.
Also how about "tichked" (tichmen + kod)? Hacker would be "tachkad" or "metachked"? Sounds also a bit like "metachker", which, were it not for the shade of interrogating a person, would be appropriate for "taking things apart to learn how they work". > As an exercise, try to translate (fully) the following sentence: > I'm hacking the driver of the universal serial bus (USB) 2.0. > ani <metachked> et <henea hahetken> shel' afik turi universali girsa 2.0. The driver word is from the Academy's site and needs replacement by something that lends itself to being pronounced :-). I'm just saying "driver". "Bakar" is bad since it's a hardware driver, i.e. controller. I'm lost on this one... ---- I certainly feel a motivation to devote some time to inventing and considering words and so probably do many others (the thread is rather active). Do you have comments on my idea of setting up some central resource where such discussions and the resulting word proposals would be recorded and organised? I can contribute some coding (after exams) but question is whether it will be used enough to be worthy. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Holy resolution for a holy war: the Torah stores most numbers as little-endian (e.g. "seven and twenty and a hundred years")! ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
