Re: [TCLUG:11512] Re: RH Linux (Was:[TCLUG:11507] Help with NE2000/Linksys16 LAN Card)

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:46:35AM -0800, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> 	one could probably make a linguistic study of the use of the
> suffix '-o' in slang: 'daddy-o', 'bing-o', 'name-o', 'doc-o',
> 'distr-o'. I have no idea what it might turn up.

	I believe the appending of 'o' to shortened forms of words in
hackerdom is a Commonwealth hackish sort of thing to do.  Most of the
people I see using this right now are Brits, and it's slowly creeping
into our language.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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