Michael A. Stone wrote:
> hacker etymology is a very tricky field, because language is a hacker's
> favorite toy. contractions are an especially difficult field, because
> there's no way to distinguish an acronym (the concatenation of the first
> letters of a commonly-used phrase) from a retronym (an arguably plausible
> expansion of a cool character series, like VIPER) after the fact. there's
> a certain Humpty-Dumptyism among hackers when it comes to language:
>
> "when I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to, neither
> more nor less!"
*grin* You mean Jabberwock-ism?
Thanks. Can't wait to taunt the tech contractors Monday.
B
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