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Amala learns coastal slang for Vada Chennai

Edit The Times of India 24 Aug 2016
We hear that the actress is mastering a specific slang for her role in the film. A source close to the actress says, "Amala is learning the coastal Tamil slang for her role ... Interestingly....

Jamie T announces tiny Surrey album release show

Edit NME 24 Aug 2016
The gig, organised by local record shop Banquet Records’ 500-capacity club night New Slang, follows the release of T’s new album ‘Trick’ on September 2 ... He played New Slang in February 2015 for his previous album ‘Carry On The Grudge’ ... with a full tour starting three weeks after the New Slang gig....

Based, the Crack-Era Word Redefined By a Popular Rapper and Then Appropriated By Racist Trump Supporters

Edit Slate 24 Aug 2016
Based. (Well, they use several particular words a lot, including cuck, bitch, cunt, and faggot ... The word based originally had a pejorative meaning derived from basehead, a slang term for someone who's addicted to freebasing cocaine ... MICHELS [voice-over] ... TEENAGER ... Complex ... Lil B is a particularly Internet-friendly artist, and based became—in its positive incarnation—a common piece of online slang and a component of a popular meme.....

The Night of the Arts on Thursday, 25 August (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Aug 2016
(Source ... Helsinki slang songs, on-street waltzing, poetry, rap? Yarn bombing, baby cinema or even an art yurt? What's on the programme for this year's Night of the Arts? You decide! ... (noodl....

A New Dictionary Down Under

Edit The Atlantic 24 Aug 2016
NEWS BRIEF Dags and wowsers rejoice. Australia’s official lexicon is getting an update. Publishers released a new version of the Australian National Dictionary in a ceremony at the Australian Parliament in Canberra on Tuesday, adding more than 6,000 slang words and phrases to the country’s compendium of its colorful English dialect. The Sydney Morning Herald has more. ... ....

Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds

Edit National Public Radio 24 Aug 2016
Enlarge this image. A customer tries the Siri voice recognition function on an Apple iPhone 6 Plus in Hong Kong. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images. A customer tries the Siri voice recognition function on an Apple iPhone 6 Plus in Hong Kong. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images ... Slang and ambient noise in a room tripped up the software ... Baidu's Ng imagines another scenario....

Silicon Week: Making power pay: how AMD's Polaris graphics cards could save gamers money

Edit TechRadar 24 Aug 2016
Introduction. PC gaming isn't cheap. First, you have to buy powerful hardware if you want to play the best PC games, then there's the cost of AAA games themselves. As we all know, Steam sales only go so far ... TechRadar spoke to Hallock to find out more. TechRadar ... Robert Hallock. We did the study because, when you say that you've improved performance-per-watt of your product, it's jargon and slang that most people don't understand ... ....

Flirting with disaster – Elizabeth Woods on her explosive film debut

Edit The Guardian 24 Aug 2016
The director of White Girl partied herself into oblivion as a teenager. Now she’s turned that experience into an unflinching account of a young woman’s sex-and-drugs lifestyle that addresses class, racism and white privilege ... White Girl – the title is also slang for cocaine – draws heavily on Wood’s experiences of moving to New York from Oklahoma 15 years ago, to take up a college place and do much of what Leah does in the movie ... ....

Dileep to speak Thrissur slang in next

Edit The Times of India 23 Aug 2016
Thrissur seems to be the favourite setting for Mollywood movies these days ... The actor tells us, "It's a comedy entertainer about a gang of four loafers, who would do anything to avoid work. They are also part of a sports club in Thrissur, so my character will speak in the regional slang. It's a fun movie." ... RELATED....

How '80's Is the Slang in Stranger Things?

Edit Slate 23 Aug 2016
But what about its language? How ‘80s is the slang in Stranger Things? ... Slang-wise, this scene time-travels ... First slang for “cool down” and then “hang out,” chill stars in late-‘70s hip-hop ... The OED attests them in the early 1900s, and both made it into the 1948 American Thesaurus of Slang ... Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green first finds it referring to a “stupid person” in 1915 ... For one, slang is notoriously short-lived and group-bound....

Liverfest puts pedal to metal

Edit Arkansas Online 23 Aug 2016
Here's a music festival that'll rattle your innards ... Beginning at 7 p.m ... Since most Little Rock venues were booked up for the holiday weekend, Moore invited the band, which would become Criminal Slang but whose original name isn't exactly newspaper-friendly, to come to his home near Ward and play in his practice space ... And the band that inspired the entire event, Criminal Slang, returns, as it has for every Liverfest....

Drake basically invented 'Netflix and Chill' almost a decade ago on 'Degrassi'

Edit Business Insider 23 Aug 2016
Aubrey Graham, aka Drake, back in 2006. Even if you never watched "Degrassi. The Next Generation," you’re probably familiar with Jimmy Brooks, the basketball star at Degrassi Community School who was shot and confined to a wheelchair in season four ... I’ll set the scene for you ... "Nobody’s immune," he adds ... The 4 C’s sound a whole lot like "Netflix and chill," the prevailing internet slang term for hooking up since the summer of 2014 ... ....

'Give me one example': Mark Cuban goes after Jack Welch for attacking the Clinton Foundation

Edit Business Insider 23 Aug 2016
Mark Cuban. Brash billionaire Mark Cuban took to Twitter Tuesday to defend Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton from allegations that the Clinton Foundation was involved in a sort of "pay to play" while she was serving as secretary of state ... "You have money," Cuban tweeted in response to Welch. "Access ... He called Trump a "jagoff" — a popular, demeaning slang term frequently used in western Pennsylvania — during the event ... Loading video... ....
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