Word: slanging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading the dotcom wealth in northern Virginia. "Shannon is absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang, and makes it readable and understandable." Born in New York City and raised in Maryland, Henry studied English at Boston University and got a master's degree in journalism and public policy from American University in Washington. Five years into the tech beat, she has been listed by the prestigious Washington...
...Race problems are just made up. Even the term is bulls___." She starts talking about the lessons in life she learned from studying social anthropology at Cambridge, then stops herself and laughs. "It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a boffin," she says, using the English slang for egghead...
...basketball players run about 6'3, which of course is way too small in a sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...
...their personality. The way I talk on TV is not the way I talk all the time. But off-camera, it is the way I talk a lot of the time. I feel there are times when it is appropriate to fall into a more comfortable usage of slang. If I'm hanging with my fellas or if we were sitting watching a game, drinking a beer, and Shaq starts doing what he did the other day--scoring 61 points [against the Clippers]--I'd say, "Shaq is killing them kids … he is just housing them. Come...
...formulaic half-hour comedy knockoff of the WB's successful hourlong teen dramedies. And perhaps it's no surprise that it's the WB doing it. All the elements are here: the hyperactive camera trickery and fantasy sequences practically mugging you for your attention; the pandering barrage of slang and pop-culture references; even a teen-film star--Eddie Kaye Thomas, playing essentially the same smug, sleepy-eyed horndog who was the least appealing part of American Pie. Guess the title Painfully Hip was already taken...