}

Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first
time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default
{fall through} in case statements has long been its most
controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms
some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's
for or against."

[For maximal obscurity, the outermost pair of braces above could be
actually be removed -- GLS]

:dumb terminal: /n./ A terminal that is one step above a
{glass tty}, having a minimally addressable cursor but no
on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a
{smart terminal}. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common
and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called
a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.

:dumbass attack: /duhm'as *-tak'/ /n./ [Purdue] Notional
cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one
made while running as {root} under Unix, e.g., typing `rm
-r *' or `mkfs' on a mounted file system. Compare {adger}.

:dumbed down: /adj./ Simplified, with a strong connotation of
*over*simplified. Often, a {marketroid} will insist that
the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after
the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it
smart. This creates friction. See {user-friendly}.