computerese
Example Sentences
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The play is annotated by a chorus of six performers who speak in the exasperating language of computerese.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018
I spoke English miserably, but the watch had its own language, a computerese series of squeaks issuing from a tiny Japanese speaker to form passable melodies.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
These images of trouble are ubiquitous in computerese.
From Time Magazine Archive
While they were at it, the computer scientists began creating a jargon of their own, sometimes described pejoratively as computerese, to talk to each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any new technology requires its technical terms, of course, but computerese also reaches out with robot arms to seize ordinary words and twist them to its own syntactical purposes.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
