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Linguists usually refer to informal language as `slang' and reserve

the term `jargon' for the technical vocabularies of various

occupations. However, the ancestor of this collection was called the

`Jargon File', and hacker slang is traditionally `the jargon'. When

talking about the jargon there is therefore no convenient way to

distinguish it from what a linguist would call hackers' jargon -- the

formal vocabulary they learn from textbooks, technical papers, and

manuals.

To make a confused situation worse, the line between hacker slang and

the vocabulary of technical programming and computer science is fuzzy,

and shifts over time. Further, this vocabulary is shared with a wider

technical culture of programmers, many of whom are not hackers and do

not speak or recognize hackish slang.

Accordingly, this lexicon will try to be as precise as the facts of

usage permit about the distinctions among three categories:

* `slang': informal language from mainstream English or

non-technical subcultures (bikers, rock fans, surfers, etc).

* `jargon': without qualifier, denotes informal `slangy' language

peculiar to or predominantly found among hackers -- the subject of

this lexicon.

* `techspeak': the formal technical vocabulary of programming,

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