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I travel all over the world. The word for hacker everywhere I go is "hacker". Many places also have other words, too, but "hacker" seems to be universal.<BR> <BR>Mitch.<BR><br> <BR><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: el.badbit@gmail.com<br>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:45:18 -0800<br>To: anthonyletigre@gmail.com<br>CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Gained in translation?<br><br><font face="georgia,serif">I think the word is borrowed from english in those other languages. I'm a native spanish speaker, and there isn't any exact equivalent to "hacker" in spanish. When you mean a "hack writer" you just use some other words that have very little to do with hacking in any sense of the word.<br>
<br>I suspect the word "hack" has pretty much an english origin, and few equivalents in other languages.<br><br><br></font><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Tony Longshanks LeTigre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthonyletigre@gmail.com">anthonyletigre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="ecxgmail_quote">I'm curious what the word equivalent to "hacker" is in other languages. Speaking as a connoisseur of the branch of art appreciation I call "linguistic aesthetics," I must say that hack, hacker, hacking etc are not the most lovely words in English. How does one say Hacker in<br>
<br>German<br>French<br>Spanish<br>Japanese <br>Chinese<br>etc?<br><br>Also, I've been wondering if the term "hack" as applied to a rank amateur - for instance, the disparaging term "hack writer" - is connected to our definition of hacking. Anyone know? Hopefully there's a lovely etymology for the word "hack" somewhere that spells it all out.<br>
<br>I *heart* etymology. Sincerely. I love that language truly and visibly does evolve before our very eyes the same way everything else does, and in a process akin to natural selection as I understand it. It's memetically delicious!<br>
<br><br>TLongshanksLT<br>
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