Crossword-Solution: LISPERS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Node:Jargon Construction, Next:Hacker Writing Style, Previous:Revision History, Up:Top How Jargon Works Jargon Construction There are some standard methods of jargonification that became established quite early (i.e., before 1970), spreading from such sources as the Tech Model Railroad Club, the PDP-1 SPACEWAR hackers, and John McCarthy's original crew of LISPers.

Lispers, cripples, hunchbacks, mutes, and similar handicapped mimes will be able, more easily and more happily, to find relief in the movies.

The wheatlands are green, snow and frost are away, Birds, why are ye silent on such a sweet day? By the slated pig-stye The redbreast scarce whispers: Where last Autumn's leaves lie The hedge sparrow just lispers.

The rick that then did keep me lew Would be a-gone another Fall, An' I, in zome years, in a vew, Mid leäve the childern, big or small; But He that meäde the wind, an' meäde The lewth, an' zent wi' het the sheäde, Can keep my childern, all alwone O' under me, an' though vull grown Or little lispers, wi' their whispers, There a-lyèn in the lew.

QUINTILIAN [Illustration] Quintilian, years and years ago, Was It on oratory; Demosthenes and Cicero He studied con amore; He ran an elocution school And taught the Roman lispers The reason and the rote and rule For requesting father, dear father, to come home with me now, in most pathetic whispers.