highly adv.
[scientific computation] The preferred modifier for
overstating an understatement. As in: `highly nonoptimal', the
worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either
impossible or requiring a major research project; `highly
nonlinear', completely erratic and unpredictable; `highly
nontechnical', drivel written for lusers, oversimplified to the point of being
misleading or incorrect (compare drool-proof paper). In other
computing cultures, postfixing of in the extreme might be
preferred.
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hing // n.
[IRC] Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use
among players of initgame. Compare
newsfroup, filk.