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game to be played for conscious pleasure. Their inventions thus

display an almost unique combination of the neotenous enjoyment of

language-play with the discrimination of educated and powerful

intelligence. Further, the electronic media which knit them together

are fluid, `hot' connections, well adapted to both the dissemination

of new slang and the ruthless culling of weak and superannuated

specimens. The results of this process give us perhaps a uniquely

intense and accelerated view of linguistic evolution in action.

Hacker slang also challenges some common linguistic and

anthropological assumptions. For example, it has recently become

fashionable to speak of `low-context' versus `high-context'

communication, and to classify cultures by the preferred context level

of their languages and art forms. It is usually claimed that

low-context communication (characterized by precision, clarity, and

completeness of self-contained utterances) is typical in cultures

which value logic, objectivity, individualism, and competition; by

contrast, high-context communication (elliptical, emotive,

nuance-filled, multi-modal, heavily coded) is associated with cultures

which value subjectivity, consensus, cooperation, and tradition. What

then are we to make of hackerdom, which is themed around extremely

low-context interaction with computers and exhibits primarily

"low-context" values, but cultivates an almost absurdly high-context

slang style?

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