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Reading from the headline you might think what is he up to now again? Jargon? What the..?

Firing up dict from the commandline we get this explanation what the word actually means:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jargon \Jar"gon\, n. [F. jargon, OF. also gargon, perh. akin to
     E. garrulous, or gargle.]
     1. Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish. "A barbarous
        jargon." --Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." --Prior.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence: an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language;
        slang. Especially, an idiom with frequent use of informal
        technical terms, such as acronyms, used by specialists.
        "All jargon of the schools." --Prior.
        [1913 Webster]

Apart from the obvious first explanation I am actually referring to the second one and want to let you in on a quite funny trade secret. Some of you might have heared that Doctors often talk to each other in latin especially infront of patients using medical slang (e.g. Plumbum oscillans).

So what is the deal you say?

Well people in the IT world tend to have those ways too and most ,,normal'' people don't get them. Some funny expressions are e.g.

pebkac /peb´kak/	Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair	Userfriendly about it
UBD /U·B·D/, n.	User Brain Damage
Fractal Wrongness	The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution.	More info here
ID-ten-T error aka Ten-T error	Ten-T Error is a term often used by tech support operators and computer experts to describe a problem that is due to the user's ignorance instead of a software or hardware malfunction.	Another slight variation is known as a ,,Layer 8 error''

... and many more ...

Should you have encountered them then beware and maybe now you understand why your account gets mysteriously deleted sometimes ;).

So do you know any other slangs like the mentioned ones? Maybe from other majors?


PS: Shame on the one who thinks I only know the latin expressions from earlier practice ;P
PPS: Please do read this stuff it is funny as hell and will save your ,,life'' if you are a non tekki.
PPPS: Please don't scold me for spilling those secrets ;)