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disturb them.

In a related vein, hackers sometimes make a game of answering

questions containing logical connectives with a strictly literal

rather than colloquial interpretation. A non-hacker who is indelicate

enough to ask a question like "So, are you working on finding that bug

now or leaving it until later?" is likely to get the perfectly correct

answer "Yes!" (that is, "Yes, I'm doing it either now or later, and

you didn't ask which!").

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International Style

Although the Jargon File remains primarily a lexicon of hacker usage

in American English, we have made some effort to get input from

abroad. Though the hacker-speak of other languages often uses

translations of jargon from English (often as transmitted to them by

earlier Jargon File versions!), the local variations are interesting,

and knowledge of them may be of some use to travelling hackers.

There are some references herein to `Commonwealth hackish'. These are

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