hacker

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:14 PM -0400 7/29/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Or watch a performance of A Thousand Clowns -- I once performed the
>character of Chuckles the Chipmunk...
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>DanG

I've known my share of chipmunks--it's just the chipmucks who are new to me.

LH

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>On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Laurence Horn
><laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>  While checking the OED entry for "hacker", I noticed that the
>>  preceding entry was "hackee", which brought to mind various possible
>>  senses for someone who is a target/victim/patient of the hacker
>>  (Shaq, for example, although not exactly a helpless victim).  But in
>>  fact the hackee is, we learn, 'a species of ground squirrel, the
>>  Striped or Chipping Squirrel, or Chipmuck, of North America'.  I had
>>  never before encountered "chipmuck" much less "hackee", but I stand
>>  informed.  Next time I see a Tamias Lysteri nibbling away in the
>>  garden, I'll be prepared.
>>
>>  LH
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