Twenty-five or so buyers shuffle from pallet to pallet, huddling around the burly auctioneer, Wayne Higashi, who calls out the prices in a lingo incomprehensible to outsiders, beginning by offering the tuna at the highest possible price and dropping it until interest awakens.
I met a bunch of bankers during the same period of time who were all incredibly competent and smart but very by-the-book and very in a lingo that's all their own.
This cannot be ridiculed as incorrect, because Pentagonese -- a lingo in which all deterrents are credible and nobody opts for choose -- is not Standard English but a dialect unto itself, with its own load outs and send-offs.
Vendors have a lingo in which relics are classified into grades.
The cue cards for "SNL" are "printed," to use the in-house lingo, in a hive-like space under the bleachers of Studio 8H.
The facades don't follow a pattern — they are not, for instance, A-B-B-A, in the lingo of architectural historians.
A ride, in this lingo, is a "spree," and a contest that's stacked against the player is a "butcher's game".
The most "proven" money-making model for video advertising is to run short ads before or after a video plays (in industry lingo a "pre-roll" or "post-roll").
More recently, in computer lingo, a firewall is a security system set up to protect a network from direct attack by hackers through the Internet; in politics, it is now the preventive preferred by strategists who, if the firewall fails, turn to damage control.
Throw in an incumbent engaged in a feud with a Memphis political machine, and the mundane becomes, in wrestling lingo, a Battle Royale.With almost two months to go before October 7th's election, the incumbent, Willie Herenton, is seemingly out in front of the crowded field.
A piece, in graffiti lingo, is a layered, multicolored, letter-based design that requires time and precision something you couldn't pull off on a Manhattan block without risking arrest.
