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by bitwize 100 days ago
"Emacsen" I can understand by analogy with plural forms like "oxen". "Lispen" is new to me.
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At Uni we had a stable of Vaxen.
It gets confusing if you speak a Scandi language where -en is the masculine definite article so Emacsen would mean the Emacs, Lispen = the Lisp etc.