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- Subject: Re: Hack, and RTF
- Message-ID: <360008@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 9 Jan 93 05:34:54 GMT
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- chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
- > >In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
- > >to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
- > >well....
- >
- > Definitely! But I don't think that's the intent in this case. The
- > connotation here seems to be something like "cocaine user" or "criminal"
- > or perhaps just "jerk/fool/creep". It's certainly not "hack" as used
- > in this newsgroup, for instance, nor does it seem to be "reporter"
- > or "unskilled writer" or "taxi (driver)" or "cigarette smoker" or
- > "short cough". Maybe it just happened to fit nicely in the lyric... *8)
-
- hack 2 1 n. horse for ordinary riding; horse let out for riding; person
- hired to do dull routine work, esp as a writer.
- -- New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary.
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