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你知道这些技术术语吗?

Source: NPR    2014-08-07  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

All this summer, we've been collecting terms of the trade - words from a job or hobby that people on the outside might not understand. We're calling it trade lingo.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

A few terms we've learned - frogging, grokked, Uncle Bob, flying pickle. Those are from the worlds of knitting, game design, photography and whale watching.

SHAPIRO: And we've heard from a lot of IT people.

你知道这些技术术语吗?

CORNISH: Turns out, IT folks have coded their own language to shield the rest of us from the truth.

SHAPIRO: Words like this from Robert Sundwick of Toledo, Ohio.

ROBERT SUNDWICK: The word is pebcak.

CORNISH: Pebcak. That's an issu