Tech slang?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 13:43

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7775013.stm

Quote:

A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them.

For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "clueless".

Bollocks. Even amongst such fine nerds as The Gaywood and Craster I've never heard of this.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

that's cos you're 404

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Marigold Periwinkle wrote:

Bollocks. Even amongst such fine nerds as The Gaywood and Craster I've never heard of this.

I agree, I've never heard that.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

to be fair, neither have I and I know and work with some huge nerds

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 13:47

The caption on that photo is hurting my brain: "Quicker to compose the slang may be, but it takes longer to read". Surely that's not grammatically correct?

myp · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 13:48

'The slang may be quicker to compose' would be miles better.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8658

GazChap wrote:

The caption on that photo is hurting my brain: "Quicker to compose the slang may be, but it takes longer to read". Surely that's not grammatically correct?

Yoda needed a new job.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Marigold Periwinkle wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7775013.stm

Quote:

A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them.

For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "We've blocked it for your own good you paedo.".

Bollocks. Even amongst such fine nerds as The Gaywood and Craster I've never heard of this.

1984 FTFY.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

R TAPE LOADING ERROR

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Marigold Periwinkle wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7775013.stm

Quote:

A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them.

For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "clueless".

Bollocks. Even amongst such fine nerds as The Gaywood and Craster I've never heard of this.

In the taxi on the way back to the hotel from Myp's house, the radio crackled and the central speaky-person said "I can't find car 404". Grim... and myself laughed uproariously.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 13:57

chinnyhill10 wrote:

R TAPE LOADING ERROR

But I'm trying to load R Type! Have I bought a counterfeit copy?

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 13:58

Cras Cringle wrote:

In the taxi on the way back to the hotel from Myp's house, the radio crackled and the central speaky-person said "I can't find car 404". Grim... and myself laughed uproariously.

Driver: "What's so funny, guys?"
Craster: "Aah, it's just 404 is the code used when you can't find something on the Web, it's funny."
Driver: "Get out. Now."

Plissken · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:02

I have made PEBKAC into a widely used term around the office. I am proud.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Plitzen wrote:

I have made PEBKAC into a widely used term around the office. I am proud.

Simiarly, at my former employer, we used to refer to a Layer Eight Problem.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:06

ID ten T error here.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Really? I just work with dumb cunts^TM.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

NERD FAIL! What is please PEBKAC?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

davprezzie wrote:

NERD FAIL! What is please PEBKAC?

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

Gotcha!

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:20

Me and my friend, when we were at college and doing IT shit and such used to say

'ESCAPE!' or 'F1' when we saw weird people we didn't like/needed helpt etc and then try and use other things like that for a laugh, like-
'DELETE, DELETE, DELETE!' when someone said something stupid....

Ahhh....back in the day

PEBWAB

I am using this one now

'Can you guess what it is yet?'

Never heard of that 404 thing (I know what it means, I mean people using it as a term)

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:22

Doctor GlyNadolig wrote:

Plitzen wrote:

I have made PEBKAC into a widely used term around the office. I am proud.

Simiarly, at my former employer, we used to refer to a Layer Eight Problem.

I'll pretend I don't get that, then I won't give myself away.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:29

Now you know what none tech folks laugh at us geeks!!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:36

I just wish there was an easy way to say ' != ' , as 'does not equal' always sounds clumsy and looks even worse.

But, 404? I do wish the Beeb would not try to sound down with the kids. We both cringe.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

AceAceBaby wrote:

Doctor GlyNadolig wrote:

At my former employer, we used to refer to a Layer Eight Problem.

I'll pretend I don't get that, then I won't give myself away.

I deliberately didn't explain it as a nerd trap...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

I've never heard of it before, but I assume it's an OSI reference?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Cras Cringle wrote:

I've never heard of it before, but I assume it's an OSI reference?

Yes. If Layer 7 is the application layer, the only thing above that is the user...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

That's what I figured.

Although I would probably put an 'HCI' layer or something in between the user and the application, representing the methodology with which the user interacts with the application. Joke ruined with dullness.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

'the political layer'

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10194

Oddly (or perhaps tellingly), I don't know what the first 7 layers are, but I do know that one.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:10

Quote:

"I love you" can take the shortened form of 143 - for the number of letters in each word.

Does anyone use this?

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:11

Slang lexicographer in "Making up slang to pretend he has a meaningful existence" shocker.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:12

Kovacs Caprios wrote:

Quote:

"I love you" can take the shortened form of 143 - for the number of letters in each word.

Does anyone use this?

No, nobody does.

I belive it's 73 in Morse Code though.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

Kovacs Caprios wrote:

Quote:

"I love you" can take the shortened form of 143 - for the number of letters in each word.

Does anyone use this?

I can picture soppy teenage emos doing that with their fingers... 1, 4, 3 *soppy look through the fringe*

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:14

I can now picture that too...

143 could be a anything....

A HUGE CAT
I HATE HAY

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

I SHAG LES.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:18

All of you should just 43.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

myoptinsel wrote:

All of you should just 43.

Fuck Myp?

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

It's a miracle that any of you have had sex.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

myoptinsel wrote:

All of you should just 43.

Love You?

Gayer

myp · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:28

You see where this stupid slang falls down? It was actually 'belm fig'.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:33

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

Marigold Periwinkle wrote:

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Ouch! Easy Marigold!

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:37

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Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Fuck you too.

ltia · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:49

R Tape Loading Error is excellent, I'm not sure why.

I remember when I was little thinking if you said R Tape Loading Error it made the speccy crash. I was only 5 though, so I have an excuse. Thing is, I distinctly remember my computer illiterate dad telling me off for saying it, as I didn't want Space Intruders to load as the excellent 'Escape' maze game with dionsaurs was next on the tape.

3 Subscript Wrong

myp · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:52

kalmarzipan wrote:

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Is that the first five chapters of War and Peace?

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 15:52

?REDO FROM START

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

kalmarzipan wrote:

?REDO FROM START

ITYM +++ Redo from start +++

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Dec 10, 2008 16:50

Cras Cringle wrote:

davprezzie wrote:

NERD FAIL! What is please PEBKAC?

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

There's something wrong with my ergonomic wrist supports?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

no, but you're pants are too tight

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