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For some reason, in Sweden, the word "gazonk" is common after "foo" and "bar". I've never been been able to figure out why. Here's a variant: https://develope

by lysace 2y ago

For some reason, in Sweden, the word "gazonk" is common after "foo" and "bar". I've never been been able to figure out why. Here's a variant: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0493/i/CHDFAGEE https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0493/i/CHDFAGEE > foo\bar\baz\gazonk\quux\bop Some Erlang reference: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-January/041215.html https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-January/0... > 43> lists:keysearch(foo, 1, [3.14, {foo,bar} | gazonk]). > {value,{foo,bar}} The GNU Emacs manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lisp-Indent.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Li... > (setq foo '(bar zot > gazonk)) https://www.epicroadtrips.us/2003/summer/nola/nola_offsite/FQ_en.wikipedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable.html https://www.epicroadtrips.us/2003/summer/nola/nola_offsite/F...: > Gazonk is often used as an alternative for baz or as a fourth metasyntactic variable. Some early versions of the popular editor Emacs used gazonk.foo as a default filename.

thaumasiotes 2y ago
> For some reason, in Sweden, the word "gazonk" is common after "foo" and "bar". That doesn't look like it's a potentially Swedish word. It does resemble an English one: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazongas https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazongas (For whatever reason, wiktionary insists on defining "gazongas" only as "the plural form of 'gazonga'", but the word "gazonga" cannot be used at all; much as with "scissors" or "pants", only the plural form exists.)
- cool_dude85 2y ago
  I don't agree with the thing about the singular "gazonga". Just like if you were to say a boob or a tit, I think a gazonga would be understood by anyone.
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    What can be understood is a separate question from what it's possible to say. Here's a common type of utterance from a foreign student of English: *Where you heard this? There's no risk of being misunderstood, but that doesn't mean it's possible to phrase a question in English this way. What would you understand if someone asked you for "the scissor"?

by lysace 2y ago

thaumasiotes 2y ago

> For some reason, in Sweden, the word "gazonk" is common after "foo" and "bar". That doesn't look like it's a potentially Swedish word. It does resemble an English one: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazongas https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazongas (For whatever reason, wiktionary insists on defining "gazongas" only as "the plural form of 'gazonga'", but the word "gazonga" cannot be used at all; much as with "scissors" or "pants", only the plural form exists.)

cool_dude85 2y ago
I don't agree with the thing about the singular "gazonga". Just like if you were to say a boob or a tit, I think a gazonga would be understood by anyone.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  What can be understood is a separate question from what it's possible to say. Here's a common type of utterance from a foreign student of English: *Where you heard this? There's no risk of being misunderstood, but that doesn't mean it's possible to phrase a question in English this way. What would you understand if someone asked you for "the scissor"?