Review: The (Conspicuously Pale) Prince of Persia
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| While the videogame that served as source material for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is guilty of replacing the voice of anyone who should be speaking a foreign language with one that sounds like Pierce Brosnan on Oxycontin, this lazy shorthand is even less forgivable when accompanied by an entire cast of white faces. |
Professors not ROTFL at students' text language - ContraCost
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| Not only are instructors not laughing out loud -- shortened to LOL in text messages and online chats -- at the technology-oriented shorthand that has seeped into academic papers, many of them also sternly telling students to stop using the new language even in less formal writing. |
Professors not ROTFL at students' text language - San Jose M
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| College instructors say their students use texting shorthand -- "u" for "you," for example -- in their academic work. Not cool, professors say. |
Buzzwords: the secret language of CRM | Blisstering Solution
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| Buzzwords can evolve into jargon, but the evolutionary process can be brutal and the weak are culled from the herd mercilessly. Buzzwords drive me nuts, because they’re used to describe new things in a shorthand way |
Adam Winkler: Corporate Speech Is Not "Free"
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| How does corporate law define what's "in the interests of the corporation"? Generally, that language is shorthand for maximizing the wealth of shareholders. |
Politico: Something to remember about CBO
Thursday 29th of July 2010 04:37:44 PM
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| While the media and lawmakers often shorthand a CBO letter as a "score" or "cost estimate," today's CBO letter is neither. Because the bill is still in "conceptual," or layman's terms, CBO's letter today was a "preliminary analysis." For it to be an official cost estimate, the bill has to be translated into legislative language. |
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