In any text that is at least somehow related to the field of information technology, the most commonly used word is likely to be “user”. What does this term mean? Who are they?
Definition of a concept
In different dictionaries of the Russian language, they explain what a user is:
- In the dictionary, Efremova T.F. is a computer user or subscriber (when it comes to the Internet).
- In the Dictionary of computer slang, an explanation is given that in Russian the user is the same as the user. Multiple form - users. An example of a use may be the following sentence: "Dear users, do not be lamers!"
- "Wikimedia" explains what a user is - a person or organization who uses the system to perform a specific function.
- The synonyms dictionary contains such equivalent terms: "user", "troll".
The meaning of the term "user": definition of the concept
The word "user" eventually acquired its own emotional component. The first association immediately is the expression "advanced user". It is in such a context that the word is usually used, if it is necessary to emphasize that we are talking about an informed user who knows and understands the essence of the issue and is not at all new to business.
"User" is, in Russian, a "user". The word comes from English use. (it is literally translated as “use” or “use”), as well as user (in the computer language they began to translate the named English version into Russian as “user”).
So, what is the user who is talked about so much? The word has acquired yet another meaning and has an allegorical ironic meaning, that is, users have begun to call people who are confident that they are versed in information technology, but in fact this is not so.
In modern computer slang, both meanings are used, the essence depends on the context in which the word is used.
User or user?
What is a user and what is a user? We understand the concepts. So, the user is the user. Then why, instead of the usual word "user", sometimes they use "user"? It’s not a matter of brevity. If you compare these two concepts, the first is used mainly in a neutral sense, but the second very often carries an ironic connotation.
If, for example, someone calls you a user, then he sort of separates himself, so smart, from you, so not advanced and not far in the matter of computer technology. Therefore, it is more politically correct to use the "user". This word is more consonant and less obnoxious than the term "user".
Computer slang: user, lamer, kettle
In computer slang, five terms are used to describe users:
- Teapot is a user who has just begun to take his first uncertain steps in the world of information technology. He is afraid of everything: press a button, delete unnecessary information, try something new. In the office, the teapot, as a rule, becomes an object for ridicule of colleagues, but it is precisely the jokes and jokes that make him overcome his fears and become a user.
- "User" is the most numerous part of users. They can be compared to a bird that spent most of its life in a cage and finally got freedom. The Internet and office programs are not difficult for him. The hard drive is clogged with all kinds of junk, without which it is completely impossible to live, and this is an ordinary user, but there is also a certain one - he knows a little about software, his colleagues and friends respect him, sometimes they even ask for advice.
- "Lamer" is an unfinished hacker, but an already advanced user, he cleverly explains everything, even that he does not understand himself, he doesn’t know at all in his vocabulary. He takes on anything. Most lamers are very fond of dummies, they really like to teach and instruct beginners on the "true path".
- "Hacker" - for the most part, are undergraduates of computer departments. Their main occupation is doing nasty things to others and searching for software vulnerabilities. These are very smart users, but they chose for themselves just this type of self-realization.
- “Specialists” are programmers, technical engineers, webmasters, and system administrators. They are aces in their industry. According to statistics, these are the most fashionable specialties and the most well-paid. There is a good phrase: "If an IT specialist asks for a memorial from the boss 100 dollars, he will receive them." But you should always remember that any IT specialist once began his steps in the world of information technology with the status of "teapot".
Instead of output
User is computer slang. And this term is used mainly only in the field of Internet environment and high technology.
It should be borne in mind that most of the high-tech industries use English as a working language. Very often, some things are easier to explain in a working language than through an analogue in Russian, and that's exactly what experts do, since the English term more accurately reflects the meaning and essence of what they want to convey to a colleague.