[from analytic philosophy] One level of description up. A
metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe
syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language. This
is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on
deliberate confusion between meta-levels. See {hacker humor}.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {flat-ASCII}{hacker humor}]