etymology of jargon

etymologically interesting

Anything self-referential is amusing (blame/praise starts with GEB - how can one describe systems purely if you have any use/reference of anything in that system in the description of the system - HAHAHAH!) like a joke or pun. Etymology of words about language, jargon: old french jargon garrire bird-chatter gargle. from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jargon

http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html
http://catb.org/jargon/html/distinctions.html
"communication, and of inclusion, and of exclusion."
And for hacker jargon as a technical language there is a complex level of detail which does seperate it from being just a plainer slang. Not easy to learn/understand unless you learn the whole culture (shared consciousness), descriptive of complex/different ideas/models/thinking... which is very useful and important for facilitation of communication, quite like a real language.

Oh yeah! so elitist :) too.

"we have attempted to ensure that everyone's sacred cows get gored, impartially. Compromise is not particularly a hackish virtue, but the honest presentation of divergent viewpoints is."

This digression started with http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/H/hexadecimal.html
"correct term for base 10, for example, is ‘denary’"

   ~"etymologically pure"~   real live language   decimal style words   "too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM", (incorrect and inconsistent anyway! :))
2  binary                    binary
3  ternary or trinary        ternary
8  octonary                  octal                octaval
10 denary                    decimal              decimal
16 sendenary                 hexadecimal          sedecimal             sexadecimal 

Numerical Prefixes: http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html
numerical words in English (possibly common to many languages via maths ?) (mainly from greek and latin )
see Table 1: Latin-Prefixed Numerical Words
see Table 3: Latin Numerical Words: 13 to 1000

Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages: http://zompist.com/numbers.htm

Arabic            wāhid  iŧnān ŧalāŧah 'arba`ah xamsah sittah  sab`ah  ŧamāniyyah tis`ah   `ašarah
Cantonese         jat    i     sam     sei      ŋ      lok     tshat   pat        kau      sap
Dutch             een    twee  drie    vier     vijf   zes     zeven   acht       negen    tien
English           one    two   three   four     five   six     seven   eight      nine     ten
French 	          un     deux  trois   quatre   cinq   six     sept    huit       neuf     dix
German            eins   zwei  drei    vier     fünf   sechs   sieben  acht       neun     zehn
Greek             éna    đío   tría    téssera  pénde  éksi    eftá    oxtó       ennéa    đéka
Hindi/Urdu        ek     do    tīn     cār      pā~c   chai    sāt     āth        nau      das
Irish             aon    dó    trí     ceathair cúig   sé      seacht  ocht       naoi     deich
Italian           uno    due   tre     quattro  cinque sei     sette   otto       nove     dieci
Japanese          ichi   ni    san     shi      go     roku    shichi  hachi      ku       juu
Mandarin(Beijing) yi     er    san     si=sz    wu     liu     qi      ba         jiu      shi
Polish            jeden  dwa   trzy    cztery   pięć   sześć   siedem  osiem      dziewięć dziesięć
Runic+            æinn   tvæiR þrīR    fiūriR   fæ:m   sæx     siū     ātta       nīu      tīu
Russian           odín   dva   tri     četýre   pyat'  šest'   sem'    vósem'     dévyat'  désyat'
Spanish           uno    dos   tres    cuatro   cinco  seis    siete   ocho       nueve    diez

Heh heh :) warhammer again in comics:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080403
http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/03/