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...Moms and dads may hate it, but au courant street slang says a lot about any society. In Japan during the highfalutin '80s, lives were oshare (posh), and indeed they were considering those diamond Rolexes and $15 cups of coffee. Food wasn't tasty, it was chou beri guddo (very very good). Clothes weren't just happening, they were a five-second melody: chooooouuu kaawaaaiiiiiii (very cute). Japanese were enthusiastic once ... and rich...
...like devaluation. Japanese youth don't work up a proper appetite, they get kobarabeta (a little peckish). The good jobs are disappearing, banks teetering, the population aging, and more and more people in their 20s are forced to live with their folks. It's a wonder the slang isn't gloomier. Nonetheless, in today's Japan, "kinda" is as good as it gets...
...Smiggin' sounds like Cockney slang for something unspeakable, not the site of the most prestigious sporting event in the world. But Smiggin Holes is a real place, a tiny town in the rolling hills of New South Wales just a few hours from Sydney, Australia - which, lets face it, has hosted what will probably remain the best Games of all time...
...Bradby adroitly brings us right where we want to be: alongside a gun-toting twentysomething sidling up to the Shanghai Club's Long Bar. Clipped and believable, the dialogue is thankfully not laden with clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research. Instead, he weaves together a vivid portrait of the times and a ripping good crime tale as he slowly unravels the characters' hidden secrets (and they all have them). As Field's ribald aunt puts it: "Everyone expects Shanghai to be decadent so we like to give the impression...
Thus, the standard deviation (“sigma” should not be used in this context for what is really a sample standard deviation but, alas, that is the slang) has become a fetish among certain circles of science concentrators because it’s generally agreed that “making it” on an exam—that is, getting one standard deviation or more above the average—is a guaranteed “A.” Assuming that scores on an exam are normally distributed, making the “sigma?...