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Internet slang (7 C, 136 P) W. Web 2.0 neologisms (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Computer jargon" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. [1] An example of Internet slang is "lol" meaning "laugh out loud."
For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include:
CAD—Computer-Aided Design; CAE—Computer-Aided Engineering; CAID—Computer-Aided Industrial Design; CAI—Computer-Aided Instruction; CAM—Computer-Aided Manufacturing; CAP—Consistency Availability Partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart; CAT—Computer-Aided ...
Leet, like hacker slang, employs analogy in construction of new words. For example, if haxored is the past tense of the verb "to hack" (hack → haxor → haxored), then winzored would be easily understood to be the past tense conjugation of "to win," even if the reader had not seen that particular word before.
a Scottish private soldier (slang) (UK: squaddie) slang term for an athlete slang term for the undergarment called an athletic supporter or jockstrap: joint piece of meat for carving * (slang) hand-rolled cigarette containing cannabis and tobacco connection between two objects or bones
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Several computer languages use ! at the beginning of an expression to denote logical negation. For example,!A means "the logical negation of A", also called "not A". This usage has spread to ordinary language (e.g., "!clue" means no-clue or clueless). Some languages use ǃ, a symbol that looks like an exclamation mark, to denote a click consonant.