Or, Geek Etymology 101
Spotted on IRC:
<Fredd> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/feff/index.htm
<Fredd> Since alt+FEFF is the entry code for MS windows
<Fredd> I will now be referring to useless banter as feff
<Fredd> I believe this is excellent etymology for a geek term
I agree with him on that one - it's a perfect, geeky method for creating new words - with the bonus that they're going to be short and snappy. I also think that feff is a great word to describe useless banter; it just sounds so utterly devoid of meaning that it fits like a glove. I'll certainly be using it from now on - and I hope to see it come into (somewhat) common usage. Wouldn't it be great to get a word derived from a unicode character's hexadecimal codepoint added to the dictionary?
Spotted on IRC:
<Fredd> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/feff/index.htm
<Fredd> Since alt+FEFF is the entry code for MS windows
<Fredd> I will now be referring to useless banter as feff
<Fredd> I believe this is excellent etymology for a geek term
I agree with him on that one - it's a perfect, geeky method for creating new words - with the bonus that they're going to be short and snappy. I also think that feff is a great word to describe useless banter; it just sounds so utterly devoid of meaning that it fits like a glove. I'll certainly be using it from now on - and I hope to see it come into (somewhat) common usage. Wouldn't it be great to get a word derived from a unicode character's hexadecimal codepoint added to the dictionary?
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