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Original Technorati articles tagged “slang”

• in Technology
  Television to the Rescue of Voice Recognition?
  How television can save us from machine translation hell
  by alexh14 / on Oct 29, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  I'm LIKE About to Scream!
  America's children need to learn how to speak. Let's help them remove the word 'like' from their vocabularies once and for all.
  by creativewealth / on Apr 30, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “slang”

 

• Pearl Necklace Slang

  
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  Having had several years of experience in interior design, coupled with a bold necklace. This choker is designed with gunmetal flat-link chains, moonstones and clear rhinestones to form a ring of daisies and three snake chains drape down front. This layer necklace also has a collection of necklaces to show how much ...
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• Family can’t wait to see Dhanush speak in Hindi

  
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  Southern star Dhanush makes his Bollywood debut with “Raanjhanaa” and says his family members, including his father-in-law Rajinikanth, are waiting to see him speak Hindi for the first time when the love saga hits the screen Friday. “We all are waiting for the release and till now he (Rajinikanth) hasn’t made ...
  13 hours ago

• National Geographic Slang Hunters E01 720p HDTV x264-DHD

  
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  Slang has been around longer than you might think?we’ve been calling a house a “crib” since the 1500′s. But for most of its life, slang has been “dissed”?banished to the fringes of language, considered unworthy of serious study. Until now. Join us on a blizzard-paced, A-to-Z tour of slang, from the ...
  1 day ago

• The Friday Funny: Microsoft’s IT Slang and Buzzwords

  
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  Perhaps more than any other business segment, the IT industry is afflicted with legions of often confusing and ambiguous acronyms and buzzwords. Part of this stems from the nature of IT itself, where complex technical concepts need to be communicated in a way that people outside of the organization actually developing ...
  5 days ago

• A Slang Thang II

  
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  A favorite of mine, thats actually really old, but making a comback is: Ornery – difficult to deal with; stubborn; finicky I really only hear it in small circles, and randomly on Tv, but any cartoon fan should be more than aware of the "person" whos been saying it since the early 1900s of cartooning. Mr. ...
  5 days ago

• A Slang Thang

  
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  Starting a new series giving my readers something a bit different. This adventure will take us into moments of slang and not just urban, but country [Redneck], foreign, and just weird. This week we start off with a very interesting one: PRINGLELINGUS Definition: The act performed on a can of Pringles when pouring ...
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• Don’t let the old salts send you topside on mail buoy watch

  
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  The carrier’s island – goodhugh photo on flickr As I work through the final edits for my upcoming novel The Sailor , I find myself smiling at all the weird, strange, and often crude navy slang and acronyms that were a part of daily life when I served aboard the four acres of sovereign soil better known as an ...
  1 week ago

• In Praise of British Slang ~ A Poem

  
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  A short time ago, I had the privilege of speaking to an English author who is also a wonderful poet. During our conversation, he asked if I was still writing poetry. The question caught me off guard. I don’t write poetry regularly and have not done so since working on my current novel. It got me thinking though, ...
  1 week ago

• Royalty Truck Insurance Announces Trucker Slang Contest

  
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  Everyone knows that truckers have their own lingo, completely foreign to an outsider. Royalty Truck Insurance wants to know: What does the phrase “Cowboy Cadillac” mean when truckers say it on their CB radio? If you have an answer to this question, visit our Facebook Trucker Slang Contest page and enter ...
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• A Hella Interesting History of "Hella"

  
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  “Hella” is one hella interesting part of California slang lore. The Oxford English Dictionary...
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• teatime kitchen accessories {no. 10 cockney rhyming slang}

  
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  Cockney Dictionary – Bird Lime equals Time These great fun, modern tea time kitchen accessories are a great way to showcase this week’s cockney rhyming slang phrase “Bird Lime equals Time”. Want to know  the rules  of cockney rhyming slang find out more  here ? BIRD: Super cute  milk jug from ...
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• Victorian slang of the Week

  
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  bushwhack–to ambush  1861.  Comes originally from bushwhacker, which was a guerrilla soldier, especially in the confederate army.  This term started in 1861–obviously the Civil War era.  Kind of amazing how much slang came out of that war.
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• "Speak English" rhetoric that youd better not try unless youre a Democrat.

  
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  1. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: "I’ve said this a thousand times, if you don’t speak good grammar – English with good grammar – you’re not going to get the kinds of jobs that you want.... If there’s a lot of jargon, double negatives, and things like that, they hurt your career prospects... People think ...
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• Book review: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies, by Tom Chatfield

  
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  Given the perennial popularity of linguistic declinism, a common contemporary version of which is “the internet/texting is destroying language”, it comes as a relief and a pleasure to read a balanced appraisal of internet language itself. Tom Chatfield ’s new book Netymology: From Apps to Zombies is a ...
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• Vinyl Slang 2013 - Spearhead

  
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  2013 - Spearhead Vinyl Slang 11 tracks CD Album
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• It’s Goin’ Down Hard ‘N Fast Like The World Trade Center

  
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  . . Your Brain Makes Its Own Version Of Valium Valium, the anti-anxiety drug that was once the most popular prescription medication in America, might have a naturally occurring relative in the mammalian brain, according to a new paper in Neuron. Stanford University researchers have discovered that a protein ...
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• Lace Up And Show Him Who Is Boss

  
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  Light blue business casual shirt buttoned down from his neck Tucked inside gray pants without pleats Walking inside his serious face Stuffed with ear buds Through which Slim Thug rapped into the soft Brown tissue of his interwoven brain complex A flash of teenage madness He stops at the fountain Gets some water The ...
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• Googles offer no clarity on the definition of these somewhat...

  
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  Googles offer no clarity on the definition of these somewhat similar but distinct gay slang terms, and frankly it is a shame these terms aren’t in wide use anymore as they are as relevant as ever.  If some of his friends have been told your name but have forgotten you’re a Trick. If he’s been told your name ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Aleph translated into modern Twitter slang by David Hirmes

  
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  The Aleph is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges  that relates the experience of a man suddenly able to see everything in the world all at once. And now, thanks to David Hirmes, that story just got a quirky, modern update. You can read the story translated into modern Twitter slang. Or maybe you’re feeling ...
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• Is "sawbuck" generally recognized as $10 in North America? Elsewhere?

  
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  Ive been thinking of starting a small, single-serving Web site that offers a very specific service for $10. I was thinking about calling it "Sawbuck [Service]". How much confidence should I have that the word "sawbuck" will be understood by most casual readers as meaning $10?
  2 weeks ago

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