computerese
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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
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
The learning, in computerese, is hands-on.
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
Reported by Robert T. Grieves/New York Even users should grok this cuspy sampler of computerese Since computers can understand only two words, variously defined as yes and no, on and off, or zero and one, computer scientists have devised a babel of "languages" that translate human wishes into some variation of the computer's two words.
From Time Magazine Archive
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