Особенности образования компьютерного жаргона в русском и польском языках

The article presents an attempt of structural description of Computer slang in Russian and Polish. Materiał dates from newest dictionaries, slang articles, Computer magazines and the Internet. Russian and Polish computer jargon is a result of process of borrowing mainly from English computer terminology. Adaptation of vocabulary in Russian language consists in structual-phonetic transformations of a foreign word, so that it resembles a word from Russian stock of lexemes. Polish computer jargon in more considerable degree is based on clean borrowings from English. In both languages apart from suffixed words and semantic derivation, semantic metafory, clipping and abbreviations play important role. Many units are marked stylistically. It concerns ironic, contemptuous or even low-class words.