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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Idk who needs to know this, but in Norwegian "runke" means to jerk off. "runk" is the word you add a prefix to in conjugation to get the different inflections

  • runke - jerk off
  • runker - jerking off
  • runket - jerked off

Etc...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You meant suffix, not prefix. But this is pretty funny regardless

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm a Finn. We also have a variation of this.

Ronald's Universal Number Kounter sounds like someone did it on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

There's a lot of that in the software world. I'm thinking of gimp.

Graphics Image Manipulation Program, yeah right

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

also the swedish meme subreddit is called r/unket

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

and runket translates to "the jerk", as in a noun referring the act of (and/or the result of...) rubbing one out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ie a Swedish circlejerk subreddit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Runke is the verb form. Runk is the noun form. You can say "en runk".