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Foo, bar, baz, etc. are more metasyntactic variables than nonces. https://jargon-i18n.com/en/M/metasyntactic-variable.html https://jargon-i18n.com/en/M/metasyn
by drewcoo 2y ago
Foo, bar, baz, etc. are more metasyntactic variables than nonces.
https://jargon-i18n.com/en/M/metasyntactic-variable.html https://jargon-i18n.com/en/M/metasyntactic-variable.html
I don't think they're related to FUBAR . . . that would be fugazi.
Nonsense pop terms are not this. They're slang. Blame (mostly) teenaged girls for that stuff, not elite (mostly male) engineers of yore.
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