:elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms
resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book
of Kells". Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The
Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish'
languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically
{elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued
by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for
graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to
support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items. See also
{elder days}. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface
produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called
`B"ocklin', an art-decoish display font.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book
of Kells". Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The
Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish'
languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically
{elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued
by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for
graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to
support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items. See also
{elder days}. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface
produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called
`B"ocklin', an art-decoish display font.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- elvish n.
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resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book
of Kells".
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Like nethack, moria,
and rogue,
one of the large freely distributed Dungeons-and... - tree-killer n.
[Sun] 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes
paper.
This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense... - languages of choice n.
C, C++, LISP, and
Perl.
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Allen's... - HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided,
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They make it with milk, rum and sugar and it's wonderful... - Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cathedral in Spain:
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