Tech slang

It is interesting how you get steeped in the job/life/stuff you do. You start to use slang that is straight from your experience and not really remembering that most, if not everyone, outside of your profession or hobby, will have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

I personally love my vernacular. I think my diction and overall vocabulary is fairly balanced and well used, but then again, sometimes I get caught using an acronym or slang that just draws a blank stare.

Like a deer caught in headlights, the poor creature just got brain-slapped by my stream of languagetrash (new word). (I am a firm believer that similarly to German, concatenation of two words should always result in a new, better, word.)

Last week, while fixing someone’s computer, they asked me a question about a website. I mentioned that if they typed a secure link instead of the standard http address they would be able to go around the redirect. So I said, “Just type in h t t p s colon whack whack, dub dub dub, and your address.”

The whack whack got em. But if that didn’t, the dub dub dub would have. I laid them out like landmines.

“What is a whack whack?” At this point jokes about the “Any” key start spinning around my head.

And I had to explain the back slash, forward slash distinction.

Then, “Dub dub dub?”

“That is short of w, w, w, as in www.address.com.” It is less of a tongue twister and a bit faster if you say dubdubdub, instead of double-u, double-eww, double-you.

lulz. (That is the plural form of lol for you plebes.)