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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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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DID YOU KNOW?
In Pittsburgh and other parts of Western Pennsylvania, it's traditional on Christmas Eve for Santa Claus to come down the chimbley.
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Turner's Dairy now has a zero-sugar "sweet tea" and I know that sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it might be my new favorite thing.
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Here's my cartoon, "Pen Avenue," for the July issue of Print:
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This sounds like the kind of come-on you used to get walking along Liberty Avenue: "Hey, baby: Wanna ride my pickle?"
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#Pittsburgh #marathon 2025! Runners crossing the Monongahela River on the Birmingham Bridge. Photo by my wife, Liz! We would like to see about hiring the lady with the megaphone to follow us around giving us encouragement all day. "There's a nice cold Ahrn waiting for you!"
(translation from #yinzer : Iron City Light beer)
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"Where do you people think your are, huh? This ain't Philly!"
Mira, si ya estaba enamorado de "The Pitt" estas cosas me roban el corazón totalmente 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I hear shouting. Like, lots of yelling screaming like it’s a sporting event kinda shouting, but I can’t tell where it’s coming from?
YO PITTSBURGH WHATS WITH THE SHOUTING (and also where is it coming from)?
#downtown #pittsburgh #alcoabuilding #williampennand6th #mellonplaza #yinzer
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Ah yes, once a year our differences are set aside and we congregate downtown, outside Josh's window, for festive honking and swearing at people and the collective inability to operate vehicles.
#downtown #pittsburgh #yinz #christmas #yinzer #pennsylvania #honk -
Shout out to alla yinz if yinz drank come in purple.
#yinz #yinzer #pittsburgh #drank #purple -
BREAKING: Several people injured after Santa riding a Norelco shaver collides with Eat'n Park Christmas tree.
More news any moment.
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@Ponygirl @jeffzugale @RickiTarr Yinzer here. You can actually hear "yinz" in other parts of Appalachia. I've heard it in eastern Tennessee, although it's more like "you'uns." #yinzer
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Ooo hey check it out. We have “an art.”
#pittsburgh #christmas #downtown #yinzer #art -
Ruth Ann Dailey is what you get when you order Maureen Dowd from Wish
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“There is more than a spiritual congruence between Glasgow & Pittsburgh, as Kelman’s ‘yins’ would indicate, the s that ends that word so perilously close a sibilant to the z in yinz & the words so nearly used identically”
The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the #Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s #Dialect
#Scots #language #Glasgow #Pittsburgh #yinzer
https://lithub.com/the-yinzers-of-glasgow-on-the-scottish-origins-of-pittsburghs-unique-dialect/
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“No, You Don’t Really Have 7900 4th Cousins” is a collaboration between the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center.
Please register online. The program is free for JGS-Pittsburgh members and $5 for the general public.
To become a member of the JGS-Pittsburgh and receive a free membership code for this program, please visit its website.
https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/event/no-you-dont-really-have-7900-4th-cousins/#jewishgeneology #dna #endogamy #ashkenazi #history #westernpa #yinzer #squirrelhill #shadyside #pgh #bbdgl3 #maxuapplebaum #matzodon #jewishgen
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Fetterman slinging some Pittsburghese at those jagoffs in the House 💪❤
#yinzer
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#introduction I'm Jordan – huge Star Trek nerd (check out my 30yo #StarTrek #PBEM #RPG at starbase118.net), #Yinzer (that's someone who lives in Pittsburgh for all you other folks), #LGBTQ #bear, and #progressive. I run https://Campaign.Help which offers production & tech/ops support to progressive advocacy groups.
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In the comparison nobody asked for ... ChatGPT 3.5 does better at talking like a Yinzer than Google Bard.
(For those unaware ... Yinzer is a colloquial term to describe someone from Pittsburgh / Western PA derived from the local accent.)
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@TheConversationUS @FediFollows @TheConversationUK I'm awarding 500 cool points for this article and for remembering and linking to it nets you another 500.. I may lapse into #Pittsburghese at any time. #Yinzer BTW I assign random points to folks. the Ts and Cs: They are redeemable for nothing in particular.