Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language From Riverhead Books (Penguin), available now! A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by…
Mundmische ist eine einzigartige Sammlung von Gossenslang, Umgangssprache und Sprichwrtern der deutschen Sprache. Jeder kann hier seinen Wortschatz verbreiten und erweitern. (tags: wrterbuch deutsch slang)
When former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum started gearing up to launch his presidential campaign earlier this year, there was one question he could not avoid. It had to do with the matter of alt-weekly editor and advice columnist Dan Savage, who has for years positioned himself as Santorum’s most prominent critic. Many politicians have fierce opponents, but few did what Savage did in 2003, and that was hold a contest to give an alternate meaning to the word “santorum”. I hope you’ll forgive me for declining to quote the winning definition, but you can find it here, and suffice to say that it has stuck. So much so, in fact, that eight years later Savage’s term has come to dominate the web search results for Rick Santorum’s name.
Hier entsteht das neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen, ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Dudenverlag und Trendbüro. Und von euch. Denn Sprache ist lebendig. Sie verändert sich durch die Menschen, die sie sprechen. Darum macht mit, schreibt mit. Mit euren Wortentdeckungen könnt ihr das Buch aktiv mitgestalten.
Welcome to the Jargon File
This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely used, shared, and modified. There are (by intention) no legal restraints on what you can do with it, but there are traditions about its proper use to which many hackers are quite strongly attached. Please extend the courtesy of proper citation when you quote the File, ideally with a version number, as it will change and grow over time. (Examples of appropriate citation form: “Jargon File 4.4.7” or “The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003”.)
The Jargon File is a common heritage of the hacker culture. Over the years a number of individuals have volunteered considerable time to maintaining the File and been recognized by the net at large as editors of it. Editorial responsibilities include: to collate contributions and suggestions from others; to seek out corroborating information; to cross-reference related entries; to keep the file in a consistent format; and to announce and distribute updated versions periodically. Current volunteer editors include:
Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>