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Word: computeristically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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That odd word, which describes how a gweep feels when he meets a phrog (see below), generally applies to anything so bad that the computerist cries out, "Bletch!" (the equivalent of the layman's "Yecch!"). This and much else can be learned from a remarkable work called The Hacker's Dictionary, which, as might be expected, is not a book but a computer printout that can be acquired only by accessing the right data base. The term hacker is itself an example, for underground languages like to reverse the connotations of words; in black English, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glork! A Glossary for Gweeps | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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