Re: More logo shenanigans
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:26:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: More logo shenanigans | ||
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AL>> I don╢t get the meaning...
AL>> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=FUBAR
AL>> "Fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair)."
That was an initial (military) meaning of the word. When it got to hacker
jargon, it changed the meaning (as did many other words).
AL>> What does it *exactly* mean? I have many options to choose
Nothing. foo & bar mean nothing. Even Nothing (TM). :)
See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html
and from
there.
As for many options - most hacker jargon words have multiple meanings. You
derive from the context.
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