SoD Glossary B

Glossary — B



backdoor: secret passage through the security built into logiciel usually by the programmer(s) who wrote it (language=modern cyber-slang); sometimes, when a program's security, as required by customer and/or specification, takes time and/or keystrokes, the programmers writing the code will build in a backdoor to make it easier and faster for them to run the program, like for testing. Used as a verb: to write such a backdoor; also, a way around the limitations of Einsteinian physics — see Backdoor Planets
Backdoor Planets: Those planets, in common parlance, where humans have established colonies. Called this because the settlement has come about through Spaceⁿ, a "backdoor" to interstellar travel, not the classic "frontdoor" always envisioned by science-fiction (first) and the rest of mankind (second). Official parlance includes the concepts of Active, Latent, Resource, Preserved, Survey, and Possible Planets (language=American slang in the future)
bagoong: sour-salty Pilipino (language=Tagalog) fish paste based on fermented seafood
Bande: gang (language=Deutsch), as in Gastarbeiterbande
banteng: see kouprey (language=Tiê'ng Viê,t)
BAnglA: Bengali language [Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www=britannica.com]
banyan: on Gë, "unusually shaped tree of the fig genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae) native to tropical Asia. Aerial roots that develop from its branches descend and take root in the soil to become new trunks. The banyan reaches a height up to 30 metres (100 feet) and spreads laterally indefinitely. One tree may in time assume the appearance of a very dense thicket as a result of the tangle of roots and trunks. "; also, "One specimen 600 metres in circumference has been estimated as being capable of sheltering 20,000 people." [Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www=britannica.com] (language=BAnglA)
barát: friend (language=Magyar; pronunciation=bâraat, where â is "shorter, darker than a in card" and aa is "long, as in are, father, but more open"); my friend = (a) barátom (pronunciation=(â) bâraatom, where (â) means it may be omitted to save space) [Magyar-Angol, Angol-Magyar Szótár (Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian Dictionary), edited by Tamás Magay et alia, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1972]
barong tagalog: a light loose long-sleeved man's shirt (language=Tagalog); the national dress shirt of [Pilipinas (aka The Philippines)], that is frequently made of piña, ramie, or similar fiber, often embroidered on the collar and facing, and worn with the tails not tucked in [Webster]
bbuhni: a curse (language=Sindhi)
Beobachtung: observation, watching (language=Deutsch; pronunciation=buh-OHB-ah_kh-toong); on Yeibichai, the ubiquitous walls, satellites, and other devices that record everything that goes on.
beygl: bagel (language=Yidish Daytsh)
Bharat: India (language=Hindi)
blister: a person in regular contact with customers on their turf; since they interface between the consortium and the customer removed from other combine members and their structures, they get rubbed by both sides, hence "blister"; see also callus (language=Yeibichai/anshin slang)
blitz-sprache: lightning-speech (language=Deutsch), a method of broadcasting through the Mirnaya Direvnya
bon gré, mal gré: with good or ill grace, willing or willing (language=Français) [Roget's Pocket Thesaurus]
bonne foi: good faith (language=Français) [Roget's Pocket Thesaurus]
börek: turnover filled with meat or cheese (language=Türkçe aka Turkish); see also cue/www=http://www.mku.edu.tr/hatay/eng_cul.htm. "Various types of pastry dishes, either non-sweet (tüzlü) or sweet (tatlI). The crust is thin and usually quite crispy, made from yufka, aka millefoy" cue/www=http://www2.efes.net.tr/masters2/turkish-food.htm#B.
Bouncin' Betty: a virtual vaccine that infects the Em-Deh's routing software without affecting it, therefore, unlikely to be detected and cured; it monitors traffic for a specific signature, probably the physical identifier required to connect to the Em-Deh, then randomizes data- and routing-packets for all such dialogues, effectively destroying all interactions for that signature, and since that person cannot do any work, he cannot defuse the vaccine; it would take a gleest of lofty-putrid caliber to intervene and asking such a favor would be extremely humiliating and require a zhuhndí approach; named after a favorite weapon of the Viet Cong (language=American slang)
brik: North African (mostly Tunisiyah, aka Tunisia) deep-fried pastry turnover stuffed with fish or meat and a whole egg (language=Al-fuSHa)
Broca-Wernicke transducer: an external device (it clings to the outside of the skull, over the hair) that bypasses the physical aspects of speech, both the perception and the expression of it, and interacts with the mental aspects of speech, so that conversations can be held remotely through direct connection with the Mirnaya Direvnya; Broca's area of the human brain is "primarily involved in the encoding of speech," the outbound portion of a conversation; Wernicke's area "plays a major part in the comprehension of speech;" other areas of the brain involved in language, "mainly located at or around the Sylvian and Rolandic fissures" include Heschl's gyri and Exner's centre [The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language; see cue/www=how to order]
bruja: witch, sorceress (language=Español)
buche: bum (language=Cubano)
buey: cuckold (language=Mexicano)
bugle