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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Filk /filk/ n.,v. [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] Originally, a popular or folk song with lyrics revised or completely new lyrics and/or music, intended for humorous effect when read, and/or to be sung late at night at SF conventions. More recently (especially since the late 1980s), filk has come to include a great deal of originally-composed music on SFnal or fantasy themes and a range of moods wider than simple parody or humor. Worthy of mention here because there is a flourishing subgenre of filks called `computer filks', written by hackers and often containing rather sophisticated technical humor. See double bucky for an example. Compare grilf, hing, pr0n, and newsfroup. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Originally "filk music" was a typo for folk music in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift fur Vollstandigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by the well known science fiction author Poul Anderson.
Fandom being what it was (and is), the term was adopted for the songs, and musical parodies enjoyed by SF conventioneers. Practitioners are known as filkers.
The phrase 'science fiction themed parody folk music' fails to capture the full range of filk music, not least because it stretches all the way from writing "funny" (or very deep) words to established or original melodies, through writing new (and witty) words to a tune another filker has created, to all-out Filk Opera - Gilbert and Sullivan have been filked a few times, so has Cats.
However, the word "filk" has also been applied to music with an original score written about a science fiction or fantasy theme.
Filk can even tell an original story such as the "Before the Dawn" song cycle.
Filk is still sung in late night filk circles at Science Fiction conventions but there are also dedicated Filk conventions each year in the US, Canada, UK and Germany.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Filk music."
Crosswords: FILK |
| Specialty definitions using "FILK": cow orker ♦ grilf ♦ hacker humor, hacker humour, hing ♦ newsfroup ♦ pr0n. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
filk | 13 |
filk music | 4 |
filk international | 4 |
filk song | 2 |
clock filk grandfather | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-l" | |
-1 letter: fil, ilk, kif. | |
-2 letters: if, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-l" | |
+1 letter: flick, kalif. | |
+2 letters: alfaki, fickle, fickly, flicks, folkie, kalifs, khalif. | |
+3 letters: alfakis, elflike, fanlike, fatlike, fickler, finlike, flakier, flakily, flaking, flicked, flicker, flokati, flukier, fluking, folkies, folkish, foxlike, khalifa, khalifs, kinfolk, kistful, skiffle, skilful, skinful. | |
+4 letters: alkalify, backfill, blackfin, calflike, calfskin, cufflink, fanglike, faunlike, fawnlike, feltlike, fernlike, ficklest, firelock, fishlike, flacking, flakiest, flanking, flecking, flickers, flickery, flicking, flinkite, flockier, flocking, flokatis, flukiest, flunkies, flunking, foamlike, folklife, folklike, folksier, folksily, footlike, foremilk, forklift, forklike, franklin, freakily, friskily, froglike, frolicky, fumelike, gulflike, hooflike, kalewife, kalifate, khalifas, kinfolks, kinsfolk, kistfuls, leaflike, lifelike, lifework, loftlike, lutefisk, milkfish, rooflike, rufflike, serflike, skiffled, skiffles, skillful, skinfuls, stickful, surflike, turflike, waiflike, wifelike, wolflike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 4C 4B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01001100 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I L K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 004C 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40434645 |
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