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rare in the U.S.) and may change places with `flaky' for some

speakers.

Coinages for describing [115]lossage seem to call forth the very

finest in hackish linguistic inventiveness; it has been truly said

that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish

has for obnoxious people.

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Hacker Writing Style

We've already seen that hackers often coin jargon by overgeneralizing

grammatical rules. This is one aspect of a more general fondness for

form-versus-content language jokes that shows up particularly in

hackish writing. One correspondent reports that he consistently

misspells `wrong' as `worng'. Others have been known to criticize

glitches in Jargon File drafts by observing (in the mode of Douglas

Hofstadter) "This sentence no verb", or "Too repetetetive", or "Bad

speling", or "Incorrectspa cing." Similarly, intentional spoonerisms

are often made of phrases relating to confusion or things that are

confusing; `dain bramage' for `brain damage' is perhaps the most

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