{"id":3134,"date":"2020-06-01T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2020-05-16T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T12:30:40","slug":"the-slang-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/06\/the-slang-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slang Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Could we simply speak English? Could we try to speak in a way that makes it difficult to misunderstand?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be nice if we both simply spoke English and tossed in a few diagrams to illustrate our thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slang? I may not know your slang. You may not know mine. We could see who can say the most slang that is not known to the other person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would win as I am older and know more. I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Hackers-Dictionary-3rd\/dp\/0262680920\/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+hacker%27s+dictionary&amp;qid=1587908583&amp;sr=8-3\">&#8220;The Hacker\u2019s Dictionary&#8221;<\/a> and know <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jargon_File\">The Jargon File<\/a>. (Have you even heard of those things?) Big deal, that won\u2019t help us communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, could we both simply speak English and toss in a few diagrams to illustrate our thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Could we simply speak English? Could we try to speak in a way that makes it difficult to misunderstand? It would be nice if we both simply spoke English and tossed in a few diagrams to illustrate our thoughts. Slang? I may not know your slang. You may not know mine. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}