Slado

I had no idea what the meaning of AREGE when I first encountered the word -it was at the bottom right of slashdot page. As was usual, I thought it derived from English or rather German word. It seemed to me that the word was associated with English word 'allege' or German word 'allgemeine', but both meanings didn't make sense in the context.

AREGE is a Japanese term and ARE means 'that' which indicates somewhere distant from the speaker, usually connotes something the speaker didn't like to refer to directly. And 'GE' means speaker's assumption. So 'AREGE' in my view means something beyond from here so it is something that we cannot contact directly, which is aweful, respectful, great, terrific, excellent, superior, etc. with combined meaning of something dubious, doubtful, uncertain, undetermined, unsettled, fluctuating.

As for me, I spent 5 or 6 hours at night before the screen (in my case it's only one!) in Slashdotting, I might be another 'AREGE' other than you.