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yncing file systems...
ync: /sink/ (var. `synch') n., vi. 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...
Synonyms govern, all right.
yntactic salt: n. The opposite of {syntactic sugar}, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to ...
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
yntactic sugar: [coined by Peter Landin] n.
Syntax Error in KITCHEN.H: COFFEE not found.
Syntax? Why not, they tax everything else.
SYS0509: The president is corrupt, please reboot the White House.
SYS8699 Out of Taglines. Press [CTRL]-[ALT]-[DEL] to generate one.

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