TANJ

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TANJ is an acronym for There Ain't No Justice. Attributed to IT developers, when their new systems don't work, and users, such as when the software they've just bought hangs their system, plus requires the hard drive to be reformatted.

The acronym is frequently used by author Larry Niven in his Known Space books, and no earlier source for the phrase has yet been found. Niven uses tanj with normal capitalization in his books, rather than all caps as a traditional acronym. It is used in sentences or dialogue to have similar meaning to a word like damn. Characters would also use various forms of the word, including tanjit, roughly corresponding to dammit.

Tanj is also the name of a los angeles-based acid-jazz jam band on the bittersound record label.

See also TANSTAAFL.

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