Usenetese

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Etymology edit

From Usenet +‎ -ese.

Noun edit

Usenetese (uncountable)

(uncommon, Internet slang) The type of language used on Usenet. [from 1992]
- 1992 June 2, Wayne Throop, “Hypothesis: I am a Transducer (Formerly "Virtual Grounding")”, in comp.ai.philosophy‎^[1] (Usenet):
  Retreived from an ancient document, translated to usenetese:
  
  >Don't get your hopes up. After scores of years there are no known holes
  >in Kpelerian dynamics... it's always agreed with planetary observations.
- 1994 February 24, John William Chambless, “Douggie's irrelevant idiocies”, in alt.religion.kibology‎^[2] (Usenet):
  "Nazi" is usenetese for "Him who agrees not with my rantings".
- 1999 July 31, Matthew Skala, “Is it wrong for family to make me feel like I want to die?”, in alt.kids-talk‎^[3] (Usenet):
  So it may not be completely appropriate to try to apply the rules of other written English to Usenet communication. The best authority on what is or is not correct Usenetese grammar, in the absence of any scholarly study of it, would be a consensus of Usenetters.
- 1999 November 23, Kent Paul Dolan, “2 year presidential term??”, in az.politics‎^[4] (Usenet):
  You wouldn't shout so in defending them if you believed that. Oh, but then, not having read the netiquette documents, you probably don't even know that all caps is Usenetese for shouting rudely, do you?
- 2002 May 25, Ogden Johnson III, “BBC Radio Version of the Foundation Trilogy”, in alt.books.isaac-asimov‎^[5] (Usenet):
  Of those ISPs who carry the binaries groups, a lot of them have relatively short "expire" times [Usenetese for the amount of time a post will remain on a given news server] of 12 hours to 48 hours.