Before you can interpret its language, you must first understand that most of it is actually the English language, but with big or often-used words. (Soon I will discuss the sophisticated computer language alittle) If you understand this, then you mainly have the language down-pact.

1. Reversal

Some phrases can be easily understood if their words were in reversed order. Take the word download for example. The person helping you out with your computer says, "Would it be okay if I downloaded my file to your computer? Your probably thinking "Huh?". But if you reverse the words to load down, you understand that that person is simply wanting to put files into your hard drive.

2. Breakup

Remember when I said the words Graphic User Interface, and I wrote a lengthy description of it? I wasn't doing it for my health, I was actually breaking up the words into sentences to make sense. However, instead of breaking it up into a sentence at first, it's best to break up a word with the words you see within that word, define each word separately, then add the definitions together to fit the meaning of the words when put together. Let's use Graphic User Interface for example.

Graphic: a picture
User: one who uses
Inter:  between
Face: the front of something's head

Now it's safe to put these meanings into a sentence. A graphic user interface is simply a graphic used by a user that's between their face and the face of a monitor displaying the hard drive's contents. However, you would've needed to be familiar with computers or think about it a long time before you could guess correctly what a graphic user interface was. Below is a picture to help you.

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