Quotes About Lingo

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

There's a lot of people in this game that wait for Paper Route, Dolph or Glock to drop just to get that new lingo and style and see what type of creativity we on.

The battle between server and servee is as ancient as it is well disguised, and it follows, therefore, that waiters have developed a private lingo that allows them to mock, complain, or simply entertain themselves.

My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

Want to back out?" Jill let out a long breath. "No. I've always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying to find the meaning of our lives, and the only thing we have to work on, or with, is our past.

Another title that could be questioned is Lingo Dan (1903) by Percival Pollard.

English is a very expressive language.

Cash or check?" he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? "Bank's closed, pal.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

in active directory domain lingo, a group of computers that shares a single namespace and DNS structure is called a domain. a group of domains linked in parent-child relationships (also like the roots of a tree) is called a tree.

Sitting in a van twiddling my thumbs while you bone up is one thing, but attacking her? No way. Bone up? Cale asked uncertainly. Get a boner, the man explained, and then added, Or an erection to those of us too damned old to know modern lingo... not to mention be able to judge character anymore.

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.

The slang for the rectum is prison wallet.

I'm not sure what I meant, but I wanted to use the lingo, and it was seductive to make these pronouncements. Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

When it comes to the music, the traits you got to have in order to make lit music, club music, to have the swag with it, to have the lingo - I got those traits, you know what I mean?

Dizzle fo shizzle mah nizzle fo rizzle

Just after Netscape I was interested in a vertical market," he began, deploying the usual Internet lingo. A vertical market was a market for a single good or service, like books or travel. A horizontal market was a market that cut across many different goods and services, like a Web browser.

Once there were many more in like vein—e.g., tuifu ("the ultimate in fuckups), tarfu ("things are really fucked up"), fubar ("fucked up beyond all recognition"), and fubid ("fuck you, buddy, I'm detached").

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.