Word: shoptalk
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...Gliglish” and meet in the self-proclaimed “cemetery of language.” Oliveira’s lover La Maga enters like a light breeze: her intuitive connections to the things around her serve as a foil for the often laughably cerebral shoptalk of the others. “She picked up a leaf from the edge of the sidewalk and spoke to it for a while, moved it along the palm of her hand, put it rightside up and upside down, stroked it, and finally she took off the leafy part and left...
Hall remembers chatting with Chomsky and enjoying the shoptalk of the physicists, which he says was incomprehensible and intriguing...
...September, French publishers Gallimard issued three Roth works, all translated by Kamoun: The Dying Animal (now a French best-seller), Shoptalk and a new, more accurate translation of The Counterlife. Before Roth had even published The Human Stain, his best-selling 2000 meditation on race, sexual scandal and identity in America, he was discussing its special challenges with Kamoun. "He told me, 'Josée, this one's got a word that might be a bit difficult,'" she recalls. The book's narrative hinges on a misunderstanding of "spooks," which is both a term for ghosts and a 1950s racist...
...same time, companies can use voice applications to reach out to consumers. Tellme and Shoptalk are helping Jiffy Lube send automated phone alerts to customers when it's time for an oil change, and CNet Auctions is working with NotifyMe Networks to call users if their online bid has been trumped--and let them raise it without firing up a modem...
Alice seems happier just panhandling, idly rauling her cup as she engaged in shoptalk with Shorey, discussing new spots and places other panhandlers have been working...