As is the case with all my friends who work in the realm of numbers and computers, I harbor secret feelings that they may speak in binary code in their apartment (“010110?” “11010!”), and use English around me merely as a courtesy. When they do speak English, it’s a contemporary patois — a combination of real English and something out of a Vista manual.

W: So is your UGC 120 over 90 bit rate biz dev?

A: Eh, we like to stick with GPV pointers and URK twiblets.

W: I see your point, but what about running function series extrapolators with my MIZ-ROPS?

A: Touché!

W: Plaxico Burress.

(from an article by Sophie Brickman)