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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: jargonistication 145
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-31-15  22:05 <=-

 NB>>> take me up short when my son, then the architect, used that sort of
 NB>>> language, or worse, spoke of ADA parking spots, or ADA entrances...)
 ML>> I doubt the shorthandization saves much time or effort.
 NB>> Basically it's jargon, only readily understood by a particular
 NB>> group... and thereby not particularly accessible to others...  ;)
 ML> A shibboleth, if you will.

To some extent, yeup... ;)  Not necessarily intended as such, but can
serve the purpose nonetheless... :)
 
 ML>> It's like these people are getting a milligram of the
 ML>> pepper in a batter and then bragging that they've
 ML>> eaten them "and they weren't that hot."
 NB>> Illigitimate bragging rights, I'd say... (G)  Maybe it was just a bad
 NB>> batch of them, though... I've had the regular spicy thigh not be
 NB>> particularly spicy sometimes, and other times be right nice...  :)
 ML> Yep, cheating. On the other hand, it's maybe not for me
 ML> to speak too loudly: when I said I ate seal blubber, it was
 ML> just enough to get a notion of it - milligrams rather than
 ML> grams, as I might have said here. There are few foods that
 ML> I have been unwilling to take a good mouthful of, but that
 ML> was one of them.

Of course, yours was your own decision how much to ingest for testing
purposes... the ghost pepper wings in question were someone else putting
the milligrams into the batter... And that puts the blame for the
cheating more on the company than on the individual who thought they got
bragging rights... ;)

 ML> CHINESE-FLAVORED FRIED CHICKEN
 NB> Oh....?  Chinese-flavored, eh...  ;)
 ML> That's what Bon App said. I can attest to the fact that
 ML> the stuff wouldn't taste like me, anyhow.

Heh.. ;)

 ML>> Attributed, probably wrongly, to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton
 ML>> Club in Pittsburgh
 NB>> They put aside rivalries for what they have in common, then...?
 ML> Indeed. Back when the schools were smaller, their alumni
 ML> bodies in some of the backwaters such as Pittsburgh and
 ML> Chicago were not sufficient to sustain a club for each of
 ML> the Ivy schools; so they banded together to make viable
 ML> entities. Nowadays, of course, there are lots of graduates,
 ML> and in Pittsburgh, the universities have enough to sustain
 ML> their own clubs, with the result that the Harvard-Yale-
 ML> Princeton Club has become a bit of a white elephant. It now
 ML> has loosened its standards to admit affiliates of any college
 ML> and will accommodate anyone who can pay $40 a month dues.
 ML> Admission: my own club now has loosened its standards such
 ML> that a minimum of 80% of its members at any one time must be
 ML> graduates of any college whatever.

Is that any Ivy League college or any college (for H-Y-P club)... and is
yours a male-only club or does it also allow females...?  ;)

ttyl       neb

... Vegan gluten-free sweets taste unavoidably healthy.

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