A Partial Collection of Willowisms

For the beginner wolinguist, a review of words and phrases known to be in use by Willow and cohort.

nimi kama pona musi mi

sitelen pi telo sona - “wisdom-liquid-writing”; JavaScript
tomo unpa - “home of sexual”; gay

Oh boy

interjection An acknowledgement of the strangeness of a situation. Indicates an expectation that further, stranger information will soon be revealed.

A: I just got a letter from the district court

B: Oh boy

Imperative Distro Rot

noun A degenerative condition common in mutable Linux systems. Characterized by long-forgotten workarounds, package management issues, and broken updates.

A: I tried to update my Arch and now half my desktop environment is missing, I think it’s finally succumbed to imperative distro rot…

DuckDuckWent

verb Past-tense of “DuckDuckGo”.

A: I just DuckDuckWent this, did you know they tried to sneak estrogen into Hitler’s food?

Rule 0 of Cybersecurity

The fundamental truth that you can’t trust a computer unless you can stick a screwdriver in it and replace the BIOS with Doom. This rule makes it impossible to solve remote biometric authentication, DRM, client-side anti-cheat, or electronic proctoring, and the companies selling solutions to those problems are doing their best to pretend that reality works differently than it does. See the more specific rule “never trust the client” in mainstream cybersecurity parlance.

Length (w.r.t. a file or other space)

noun The measurement of the dimension along which a one-dimensional digital space is addressed.

A: This hard drive is four terabytes long.

It would be funny for a second and then it would suck for everyone involved

Self-explanatory.

Bean Glasses

noun Humorous name for the Lost Seer’s Lenses item from Risk of Rain 2.

Ducklingmode

verb To follow closely behind one or more people, as a duckling follows its mother.

I love comparing the weights of two objects by hand

Ironic response to (or invocation of) the “67” meme, referring to the similarity between the “67” gesture and the typical way one weighs objects by hand.

Ledhceb Test

Does a piece of media…

Have two men?
Who have names?
Who talk to each other?
About something other than a woman?