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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>grilf</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gribble.html" title="gribble"/><link rel="next" href="grind.html" title="grind"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">grilf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gribble.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grind.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="grilf"/><dt xmlns="" id="grilf"><b>grilf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Girlfriend. Like <a href="../N/newsfroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsfroup</i></a> and
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<a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>, a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to
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have originated sometime in 1990 on <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>. [A
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friend tells me there was a Lloyd Biggle SF novel <i class="citetitle">Watchers Of
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The Dark</i>, in which alien species after species goes insane and
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begins to chant “<span class="quote">Grilf! Grilf!</span>”. A human detective
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eventually determines that the word means “<span class="quote">Liar!</span>” I hope this
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has nothing to do with the popularity of the Usenet
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term. —ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gribble.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grind.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gribble </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grind</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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