Book to unravel internet jargon.Byline: RICHARD SMITH BAFFLED internet users are to get help from a new dictionary. The book aims to unravel the mystery of terms like "angry fruit salad (abuse) angry fruit salad - A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). ", "zipperheads" and "meat space". It also explains the meaning of chatty and personal internet shortforms such as FWIW "For what it's worth." See digispeak. FWIW - For what it's worth. , MUSM, ROFL "Rolling on the floor laughing." See digispeak. , JMHO and SOHF. More than 4000 differnt terms are defined in the Dictionary of the Internet, written by Professor Darrel Ince, a computer expert at the Open University. Prof Ince, 53, said yesterday: "The internet has a language all of its own and I should have written it sooner but it took a lot of time gathering the information to define the terms I found. "I hope that every user of the internet will find use from the dictionary, from computer experts to people who just like to dabble." Among the terms, angry fruit salad refers to a website with too many distracting visuals. Zipperhead (abuse) zipperhead - An IBM term for a person with a closed mind. : A user with a closed mind. Meat space: The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace. FWIW: For what it's worth. MUSM: Miss you so much. ROFL: Rolling on floor laughing. JMHO: Just my humble opinion. SOHF: Sense of humour Noun 1. sense of humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humor, humor, humour failure. The book is published by Oxford University Press and priced at pounds 16.99. |
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