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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's also, in my opinion, the most verb-able of all *NIX commands.

[–] captainlezbian 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah I’ve told someone to grep something despite knowing they had a windows server

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, rm being short for "remove" is very verbaceous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Oh go fsck yourself (maybe that works better written...).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Verbaceous is a great word. I'm adding it onto my "favourite words" list ,(even if it isn't technically a word "

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ah, pshaw, I don't subscribe to the notion that there's such a thing as "not a word." Why bother having a system of root words, prefixes and suffixes if we're not allowed to use that system to build the words we need? Especially for the fun of it. Verbaceous is adjectivacular.