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There's a terrible/great genre thriller by Jeffery Deaver called 'The Blue Nowhere'. Whoever ghost wrote it seems to have set themselves the goal of using every word from the jargon file. Unintentionally hilarious.



At my book club (mostly us old farts from SU-AI and MIT-AI) someone mentioned that Harry Harrison had read the jargon file when spending time at the MIT AI lab and made a point of using them in conversation. Unfortunately by learning them that way he didn't get any of the context (and wasn't a hacker anyway) so he never used them correctly.

(The person who related this anecdote wasn't mocking him, it was just an example while talking about something else, using amusing examples that all of us would know. I don't remember Harrison, but I think I remember Robert Sheckley doing this, not that it matters).




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