Example sentences for: computerese

How can you use “computerese” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For although the vocabulary does make important use of computer terminology, and although it does share with newspeak a penchant for blends and acronyms and an avoidance of adjectives and adverbs, it reflects a manner and an environment greater than both computerese and newspeak.

  • After it has been installed, the DOS, as it is called (once identified, nothing in computerese is ever called by its full name again: a Personal Computer becomes a PC; a Disk Operating System becomes a DOS; if it is made by a company called MicroSoft, it is called MS/DOS), performs certain functions, though rarely any that anyone but a computer specialist would want to perform.

  • For the examples of semantic noncompliance—along with features as widely disparate as computerese or the variety of registers—begin to reflect a world-view, the crystallization of a special sphere.


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