A new word?

[Dave Wilton]

This one is additionally interesting because "foo" is commonly used in
software code examples to stand for a username, password, file name, or
other variable character string. When I first read Wilson's post, I thought
it was an alternate spelling of this.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net


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Grant Barrett
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Subject: Re: A new word?

I did an entry for the suffix "fu" in 2004. I probably need to revise
it to include many more examples.

http://www.dtww.org/index.php/dictionary/fu/

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/

The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071458042/


On Aug 15, 2006, at 16:26, Wilson Gray wrote:

>> From Slashdot:
>
> If you've got what it takes [to write good code], and more of it than
> anyone else, then you can take home up to $10k for your _code-fu_."
>
> ca.98,000 raw Googlits.
>
> -Wilson
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> found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
> imposed upon them.
>
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