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Using computer lingo in conversation

The other day I was chatting to one of my friend and I wanted to tell her something like

Your minutes NOT EQUAL TO My minutes.

And I wrote,

Your mins != My mins.

I realized that I am using programming construct ‘!=’ instead of writing ‘not equal to’. Does it have anything to do with the fact that for last 3 days I am coding for 15 hours a day?

When was the last time you used a computer lingo in your conversation with non geek?

JD

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3 Responses to “Using computer lingo in conversation”

  1. Kyle Stemen Says:
    June 24th, 2005 at 4:08 am

    I haven’t done it in a while, but I’ve been tempted. The last time I can remember, I used ‘nand’ in an English paper in high school. In English, we have ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’. Why not finish it off by adding ‘nand’ and ‘nor’?

    The think the computer lingo version of your sentence (or maybe it’s an expression?) makes more sense than the English one. How’d your non-geek friend take it?

  2. JD Says:
    June 24th, 2005 at 6:26 am

    Yeah, I think they can add ‘nand’. BTW, ‘nor’ is already present as in ‘Neither … Nor’ construct.

    And my non-geek friend just ignored that particular text, which is normal. :)
    And thanks for stopping by and commenting! :) JD

  3. Jon Says:
    July 5th, 2005 at 5:14 pm

    A lot of kids nowdays can’t write proper school reports, they use SMS language. It is probably the same thing.

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