Лексичні та синтактико-стилістичні зміни в сучасній англійській мові: вплив комп’ютерних технологій

There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic up to 1995, `email' predominates, `e-mail' runs a not-too-distant second, and `E-mail' and `Email' are a distant third and fourth.

= G =

gen /jen/ /n.,v./ Short for generate, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts.

generate /vt./ To produce something according to an algorithm or program or set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the execution of an algorithm or program.

Ant. parse.

Gosperism /gos'p*r-izm/ /n./ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms.

grilf // /n./

Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to

have originated sometime in 1992 on Usenet.

= H =

hack

1./n./ Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.

2./n./ An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.

3./vt./ To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!"

4./vt./ To work on something (typically a program).

E.g.: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO."

5./vi./ To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way.

E.g.:"Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking."

6./n./ Short for hacker.

`happy hacking' (a farewell), `how's hacking?' (a friendly greeting among hackers) and `hack, hack' (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell).

hack mode /n./

1.What one is in when hacking.

2.More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during larval stage. Sometimes amplified as `deep hack mode'.

hack on /vt./ To hack; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might hack up.

hack together /vt./ To throw something together so it will work. Unlike `kluge together' or cruft together, this does not necessarily have negative connotations.