[Wikipedia-l] The shadows of Comic-Book Guy

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> The more I find entried like [[SCSI voodoo]], the
> more I wonder what to 
> do about them.

<snip>

> Perhaps one step would be to merge all the articles
> on voodoo-inspired 
> hacker lingo into just that: [[voodoo-inspired
> hacker slang]]. At least 
> that would stand some chance of being more than
> disctionary entries: 
> there would be potential for an overview of the
> linguistic trend, 
> reasons, etc.
> (suggestions for a better page name on a postcard ;)

I've always been in favour of simply removing hacker
slang. The Jaron File already does it better, and it's
public domain. Why duplicate the effort, especially
since it arguably falls outside of our scope?

Stephen G.

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