Glossary of American English Hacker Theocratese

Concerning the Title

The title of a book is supposed to tell the reader something about its contents. Why is the title of this one so long and hard to remember? Does it mean that the book is long and its contents are hard to remember? The title was conceived as follows:

• A Glossary is a collection of terms limited to a special area of knowledge or usage. The label dictionary would be too formal for this work.
• That it is in English is self-evident. It is in American English because I have documented what is essentially my own personal experience with {theocratic} terminology, and it has been my experience to have spent my entire life in the USA.
• Hacker has been added to the title because the Glossary's existence sprung from a need expressed by some brothers and sisters who associate informally with one another over the Internet. Most of these persons are computer and network literate, and many are computer professionals. So a few computer-oriented {hacker} terms and expressions have been included as headwords, primarily the most widely-used acronyms and abbreviations, for the sake of readers who are computer novices. (See {AMOOFL}, a neologism^[6] introduced in version 6.2 of this book, and used extensively throughout it.)

  [6] A neologism is a new word, usage, or expression, and a neologist is one who invents them. Thus Theocratese is a word of my own invention. A {Web}-based version of Webster's dictionary (several editions are available), hereafter referred to as the Internet Webster's, provides a second definition for neologism, namely ``a meaningless word coined by a psychotic.'' I have been claiming to be a neologist for years, but never realized how accurate I was. :-) (See {emoticons}.)

• Theocratese is a neologism. It means ``the language of theocratic people'', according to the same pattern that dictates that Chinese is the language of the people of China. It should be capitalized, just as the name of any other language would be. The existence of such an entity is confirmed by the Bible writer Zephaniah:

  For then I shall give to peoples the change to a pure language,
  in order for them all to call upon the name of Jehovah,
  in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder. (Zep 3:9)

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