computerese
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 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
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
Instead of writing commands in computerese, Macintosh owners used a mouse to point and click on easily identifiable icons on the screen--a trash can and a file folder.
From Time Magazine Archive
Swatches of poetry are jumbled together with passages of computerese and snippets of mysteriously disembodied conversation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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