Dont Whack me okay ?
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Its not unusual to hear the Whack sound often. Nothing to do with the verb Whack but its still funny.
So I overhear this Systems admin at work today, setting up some apploication over phone, was helping out someone actually. Most of the conversation was not audible but in between hear this distinctive "whack, whack". Lol, cant tell you how funny it sounded. Not that I'm hearing this the first time, but probably the way he was utterring, made it sound funny.
If you havent come across this, whack is a lingo used for forward-slash. So, its not unusual to pronouce c:/windows/system32 as "c colon whack windows whack system32"; lol or something like "http colon whack whack dub dub dub microsoft dot com whack partners". Whack partners eh? Lol ... dub dub dub is a lingo used for www. I've also heard people say dubya dubya dubya, triple w, triple dub etc..etc..
Also used are backwhack (backslash), bang or smash or wham(exclamation), hashbang, shebang, splat bang all refer to(#!).
So next time you hear someone go "whach, whack" try not to look astonished :D
Archived in: Windows Unix Linux Programming www http whack dubya
So I overhear this Systems admin at work today, setting up some apploication over phone, was helping out someone actually. Most of the conversation was not audible but in between hear this distinctive "whack, whack". Lol, cant tell you how funny it sounded. Not that I'm hearing this the first time, but probably the way he was utterring, made it sound funny.
If you havent come across this, whack is a lingo used for forward-slash. So, its not unusual to pronouce c:/windows/system32 as "c colon whack windows whack system32"; lol or something like "http colon whack whack dub dub dub microsoft dot com whack partners". Whack partners eh? Lol ... dub dub dub is a lingo used for www. I've also heard people say dubya dubya dubya, triple w, triple dub etc..etc..
Also used are backwhack (backslash), bang or smash or wham(exclamation), hashbang, shebang, splat bang all refer to(#!).
So next time you hear someone go "whach, whack" try not to look astonished :D
Archived in: Windows Unix Linux Programming www http whack dubya
Posted by Rajesh @ 11:03 PM; PERMALINK,
4 Shouts:
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At June 09, 2006 1:25 AM,
RPM said...
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I have heard 'tick' for single quote ('). Quite an improvement over "single quote" :-)
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At June 09, 2006 8:18 PM,
Rajesh said...
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@ Rpm - hmm tick sounds way better, yeah !
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At June 15, 2006 12:00 AM,
ammu said...
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but 'tick' makes me think of the check mark.
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At June 15, 2006 10:30 AM,
Rajesh said...
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@ Amrita - it does. But depending on the situation, conveys different meanings.
