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...realistic it is. London, where Theo lives, is not depicted as futuristic; in fact, it does not appear much different than it does today, with double-decker buses and coffee shops. Since scientists have not figured out the cause behind women’s infertility, there is no scientific jargon to justify categorization as science fiction. Furthermore, the film’s major issues—immigration, the environment, and politically sanctioned force—mirror our concerns today. Although they’re startlingly severe, it’s not difficult to imagine their current counterparts developing in similar...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cautionary Tale in ‘Children of Men’ | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...young women had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

Lionbridge and its competitors recruit at universities and industry websites such as linguistlist.org with specialists of all stripes in demand, from automotive experts to those with a knack for medical jargon. "India has about a dozen dialects needed to capture a substantial customer base, says Bolen, "so for Nokia we're translating applications and phones and instructions in nine different ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Translation Nation | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

This boredatlamont.com poster seems to have carried economic jargon to its most ridiculous extreme. The post’s mixture of the crude and the academic is somewhat disconcerting, although quite funny (especially in the uncensored original...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Talking Like an Economist | 1/6/2007 | See Source »

...jargon of economics has, in fact, become a sort of lingua franca for many at Harvard, a bizarre pidgin used to express not only financial concepts but also more mundane matters. Often, the language of economics provides a neat bit of shorthand to express what would otherwise be complicated to explain...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Talking Like an Economist | 1/6/2007 | See Source »

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