Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

66 Forbidden Words
standards); they are somewhat less well defined by a common recreational
interest; and the most ill-defined in-group are those defined merely by a
temporary interest in the topic of the jargon – such as those members of the
public who publish birth notices.
It follows that every text (discourse), including social chit-chat, is jargon of
one kind or another, and that everybody uses at least one jargon. In fact,
almost everybody controls several jargons, and often many. Readers of this
chapter have already been exposed to a variety of jargons, and those still
reading will have taken it in their stride. It is often the case that an expert
in one domain (an in-grouper with respect to its jargon) needs to explain
something within the domain – including, perhaps, jargon – to a novice
outside the domain (an out-grouper), with minimal use of jargon. An example
would be where a lawyer needs to explain some point of law to a client; or
a doctor needs to explain a medical condition to a patient; and educationists
almost all of the time. Any jargon is in constant contact with others, and it
should be fairly obvious that jargons are not discrete from one another: all of
them borrow from language that is common to other jargons. The following is
an excerpt from a chat room interchange, replete with chat-room jargon such
as lol (the acronym from ‘laughing out loud’ which is used here as a mark of
empathy like a grin in f2f ‘face to face’ conversation), j/k ‘just kidding’, and
emoticon smiles :), :-) and wicked smile >:) ; there is also jargon appropriate
to in-group discussion of computer hardware, but note the divergence into less
esoteric matters than disk drives and controllers. This mixing of jargons is
very common in regular conversational discourse.
so wait becuz i have the onboard raid controller i could fit 2
hdd’s on the raid controllers and 2 on the ide controllers?
RAID is just a standard of combining different drives.. you
can make a raid out of scsi drives along side ide drives if you
want
you could make a raid out of a hard drive and a ram drive
just forget about the raid stuff
lol
and picture it as another ide controller
thats all it is unles syou setup the raid stuff
so wait i can have 2 hdd’s on the raid, 2 on teh primary ide and
then 2 drives on the secondary ide?
i guess.. tried reading the manual?
lol manual?
:)
didnt your motherboard come with any papers
iz that that book that says A7V333 on it?
yes
lol the one that i’m using to prop up my comp table?