Definitions
Etymologies
- computer + -ese (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The analogy, I take it, however, is to the fact that we can still "pull up," as they say in "computerese," the earlier interview.”
“Knowledge Navigator was a tablet style computer with numerous advanced capabilities, including an excellent text-to-speech system with no hint of "computerese", a gesture based interface resembling the multitouch interface later used on the iPhone and an equally powerful speech understanding system, allowing the user to converse with the system via an animated "butler" as the software agent.”
“No big scientific/computerese language or concepts to figure out or just give up on & skip over.”
“As a nineteen year old those observations on lingo and computerese acronyms might have some relevance, for the majority of visitors to this site ... they do not.”
“I think, if asked, the computerese guyswill say that nothing is ever erased from a computer's memory banks, even if the 'delete' button is hit.”
Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Bush Criminal; Another Reason to Impeach
“You sure file-dumped (sorry for the computerese) your life onto Op-Ed.”
“So, I guess what I'm saying is that you need to be pretty hep on computerese.”
“In computerese, this is commonly referred to as GIGO garbage in, garbage out.”
“Spam, of course, is computerese for unsolicited e-mail and most folks are finding more and more of it on their computers every day.”
“* You send a message but get back an ominous looking message from MAILER-DAEMON containing up to several dozen lines of computerese followed by your message.”
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 2: E-mail
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘computerese’.
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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computer phrases / words
how computer is used
computer age, computer-aided, computer analysis, computer animation, computer art, computer-assisted, computer-based, computer chip, computer circuit, computer conferen..., computer console, computer control and 102 more...
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WF - esey
The suffix -ese in action
Bernese, Genoese, Siamese, Maltese, Congolese, Taiwanese, Sudanese, Nepalese, Burmese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Lebanese and 64 more...
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