Zoinx

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[edit] The Zoinx language

Zoinx is a constructed language or conlang, as opposed to a natural one. It started out as a prank by Roger Espel Llima, a computer science student at the École Normale Supérieure in 1993. It enjoys strange and deliberately convoluted linguistic features (vocabulary, syntax, grammar, pronunciation and spelling).

[edit] The “zoinx” word

As a private joke for those in the know, and also because of the quite catchy pronunciation of the single-syllable word in French, “zoinx” is used colloquially to mean a random variety of things, such as a metasyntactic variable in source code (examples: [1], [2], [3]), an exclamation of mild annoyance (“well, zoinx then!”), an interjection, as a stem to form new words, and even as the name of a fictional deity [4].