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Verbage: /ver'b*j/ N. A Deliberate Misspelling And Mispronunciation Of {verbiage} That Assimilates It To The Word `garbage'.
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:verbage: /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of
{verbiage} that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare
{content-free}. More pejorative than `verbiage'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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verbage /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'.
Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'....
flamage: /flay'm*j/ n. Flaming verbiage, esp. high-noise, low-signal postings to {USENET} or other electronic {fora}.
Often in the phrase `the usual flamage'. `Flaming' is the act itself...
verbiage: n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {{documentation}}.
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject....
Macintoy: /mak'in-toy/ n. The Apple Macintosh, considered as a {toy}.
Less pejorative than {Macintrash}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
mouso: /mow'soh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] An error in mouse usage resulting in an inappropriate selection or graphic garbage on the screen.
Compare {thinko}, {braino}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
flamage /flay'm*j/ n. [very common] Flaming verbiage, esp.
high-noise, low-signal postings to Usenet or other electronic fora....
lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
legalese: n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard
ext that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a {language lawyer} to {parse} it....
documentation:: n. The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}).
Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing i...