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Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be

verbed", "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm

grepping the files". English as a whole is already heading in this

direction (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are

simply a bit ahead of the curve.

The suffix "-full" can also be applied in generalized and fanciful

ways, as in "As soon as you have more than one cachefull of data, the

system starts thrashing," or "As soon as I have more than one headfull

of ideas, I start writing it all down." A common use is "screenfull",

meaning the amount of text that will fit on one screen, usually in

text mode where you have no choice as to character size. Another

common form is "bufferfull".

However, hackers avoid the unimaginative verb-making techniques

characteristic of marketroids, bean-counters, and the Pentagon; a

hacker would never, for example, `productize', `prioritize', or

`securitize' things. Hackers have a strong aversion to bureaucratic

bafflegab and regard those who use it with contempt.

Similarly, all verbs can be nouned. This is only a slight

overgeneralization in modern English; in hackish, however, it is good

form to mark them in some standard nonstandard way. Thus:

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