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Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.
OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.
OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.
This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.
83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.
8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.
8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.
I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'
OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.
OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.
OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.
Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':
- Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL *
- Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971 *
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf
- Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits? *
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits
#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor
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OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net
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"Wordplay in Peanuts" @ Charles M. Schulz Museum's blog
https://schulzmuseum.org/wordplay-in-peanuts/
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Sanskrit poets embedded philosophical arguments in puns that worked on two levels.
Nahua orators criticized their rulers through wordplay, one layer was politically safe, the other seditious.
A listener who caught the double meaning knew the speaker’s actual position without triggering retaliation.
The skill lay not in #humor but in plausible deniability.
#language #Sanskrit #Nahua #meaning #wordplay #history #power #philosophy
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Trump: "US controls Strait of Hormuz"
Truth: US in straitjacket of Hormuzhttps://us.cnn.com/2026/08/13/middleeast/who-controls-strait-of-hormuz-iran-us-intl-hnk
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Anstatt Buchhaltung lieber ein Witzbild für diese Herren und deren Hörers basteln:
@freakshow @audiodump @timpritlove @Malik @Och @flowinho @johnnysharks
#slack #EdVonSchleck #80er #80s #retro #Eis #Langnese #Wortspiel #dadjoke #german #wordplay #humor #metaebene #freakshow #audiodump #podcast
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Ältere Tomaten = Omaten?
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Crow and Ghost
Have an argument6-Link #Rengay
Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter
Nara Moore @NaraMoore#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #
#NaHaiWriMo #Crows #Corvids #Humor #Puns #WordPlay -
Time for a brand-new #Scrabblegram! 🔠 (I've posted older 'grams the past 3 months)
So, could we maybe start rewarding #cleanenergy instead of #fossilfuels? 😳
#wildfires #smoke #airquality #climate
#scrabble #wordplay #commentary
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#beingSeen #blogStats #concretePoetry #Connection #CreativeWriting #cyberpoetry #digitalPoetry #Encouragement #experimentalPoetry #lifeGivingWords #meaning #micropoetry #minimalistPoetry #oneReader #oneWord #onlineWriting #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #readerConnection #RUThe1 #stats #textPoem #theOnlyStat #UC #UR #visualPoetry #Wordplay #wordsMatter #writerLife #Writing -
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In my defence, I didn't steal the hedge; I merely de-fenced the area.
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It was random Polish word play just appeared in my head without any reason. In Polish "anioł stróż" - guardian angel is pronounced similar to "anioł struś" - angel ostrich or ostrich angel. And I immediately thought I should draw it some day, like with many word jokes with my friend before.
Not so easy to translate Polish jokes like this internationally...
#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #ostrich #angel #WordPlay
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From time to time I consider producing something one might call “the wrong dictionary”, but then reject the idea as being immoral. But the definitions keep occurring to me, most recently:
Ecumenical, adj foaming [at the mouth] from the French écume, foam.
Maybe posting them here from time to time will get them out of my head?
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Warum heißt es „Katholiken“ und nicht „Prozessions-Spinner“?
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@MugsysRapSheet putting the “dent” in president
#wordplay #facepalm #news #TooBeFairBothAreLongWordsStartingWithT
#humor
