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Re: Fighting the denigration of hackingby allolex (Curate) |
on Feb 07, 2004 at 19:05 UTC ( [id://327344]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
All of the acceptions you have listed are currently in use, but don't forget that the reading/meaning you choose often has a lot to do with what particular group or groups you want to belong to. Apparently the Java people at your work belong to a group that considers the word "hack" to be pejorative. You see yourself as belonging to a group of people that consider "hack" to be positive. When you use "hack" in this sense, you are socially setting yourself apart from your co-workers. The English language is big enough for all of these meanings, but you'll find that people typically are not at all familiar with the use of "hack" in any positive sense. That sense is reserved to another in-group. That means you might have to translate what you mean when you're talking to people who either don't know or don't accept your definition. This is a bit of an aside to the whole topic: Here's the entry for hacker from WordNet 2.0: hacker WordNet concentrates on descriptive definitions.
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