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• A fellow bought a new car, a Nissan, and was quite happy with his purchase.
  He was something of an animist, however, and felt that the car really ought to have a name....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor. -- Hare
• A gen'ral sets his army in array in vain, unless he fight and win the day. -- Denham
• emoticon /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news.
  Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usene...
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• u- pref. Written shorthand for micro-; techspeak when applied to metric units, jargon when used otherwise.
  Derived from the Greek letter "mu", the first letter of "micro" (and which letter looks a lot like the English letter "u")....
• Harris had the beefstead pie between his knees, and was carving it, and George and I were waiting with our plates ready.
  "Have you got a spoon there?" says Harris; "I want a spoon to help the gravy with....