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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>kludge</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="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="klone.html" title="klone"/><link rel="next" href="kluge.html" title="kluge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">kludge</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="klone.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="kluge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="kludge"/><dt xmlns="" id="kludge"><b>kludge</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="pronunciation">/kluhj/</span> <span class="grammar">n.</span> Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling
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of <a href="kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a> (US). These two words have been confused
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in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great
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Britain since the end of World War II.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [TMRC] A <a href="../C/crock.html"><i class="glossterm">crock</i></a> that works. (A long-ago
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<i class="citetitle">Datamation</i> article by Jackson Granholme similarly
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said: “<span class="quote">An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a
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distressing whole.</span>”) </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To use a kludge to get
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around a problem. “<span class="quote">I've kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it
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up properly later.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>This word appears to have derived from Scots <span class="firstterm">kludge</span> or <span class="firstterm">kludgie</span> for a common toilet, via British
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military slang. It apparently became confused with
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U.S. <a href="kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a> during or after World War II; some
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Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but
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<a href="kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a> is now uncommon in Great Britain.
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‘Kludge’ in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from
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‘kluge’ in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is
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something no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with.
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Also, ‘kludge’ is more widely known in British mainstream slang
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than ‘kluge’ is in the U.S.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="klone.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../K.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="kluge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">klone </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> kluge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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