Quotes About Lingo

If you want to know, what I've studied seems to me a lot of rubbish. The rules, the lingo, strike me as comical. The idea of men spending their lives in this make-believe appalls me. I used to think it was preferable to the Army, but I'm sure now that they're both the same kind of foolishness. I don't care. I picked the Navy. I'll see this stupid war through in the Navy.

Every field of knowledge has its own technical vocabulary.

On the other hand, smaller samples obviously make for larger standard errors and therefore a larger confidence interval (or "margin of sampling error," to use the polling lingo).

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that? Probably people who don't have sex

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

But his key label is 'cant'. He defines the word as follows: 1. A corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds 2. A particular form of speaking peculiar to some certain class or body of men 3. A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms 4. Barbarous jargon 5. Auction When a word is

I know what the streets want to hear, I know what the streets going through, the lingo, the fashion, everything. It ain't nothing; it's my real life.

It's just, people throwing around fashionable lingo think they're so hip and imaginative. But you can't be hip and imaginative. You can be unhip and imaginative, or hip and conformist.

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that." "I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said.

A pirate apparently also often referred to his penis as a "yard." I

Because we are in the same business, he didn't have to explain that "typo" is short for "typographical error." If Helena had come out, we would have had to stop using our industry lingo so that she could understand us