Sentence examples for insider language from inspiring English sources

Niemann's book speaks to children with the insider language of the subway system.

But YOU'D be hurt!" "Insider" language used in public at the very least confuses those not in the group.

On the other hand, the ability of highly coded "insider" language to suddenly break out of its corralling in a tiny demographic subgroup and turn mainstream is a feature of 20th-century language transfer.

LEARN THE LANGUAGE To engage with people, it helps to know some of Twitter's insider language and etiquette, which is a big part of what can make the service confusing for new users.

Here a highsmith is a train and a hemingway a sentence, a gogol is an overcoat and a golightly a cocktail dress; a glossary in the back instructs readers in the smirking insider language.

Here, instead of two movie producers conversing in the cynical insider language of their trade, we have two lawyers, equally fluent in their jaded professional lingo: Jack Lawson (the white Mr. Spader) and Henry Brown (the black Mr. Grier).

He lost his soul as he mastered the indispensable trick of imitating insider languages.

The job-talk audience likely includes corralled undergraduates and bygone senior faculty who are not in the know about, or no longer interested in, all of that exclusive insider-language.

The Waugh who began Vile Bodies in the early summer of 1929 and resumed it in the early autumn was an insider, using language and real-life models that he had listened to and observed at first hand.

"While it is outrageous and disturbing that political science has been singled out for extra scrutiny and scorn," he writes in an e-mail to ScienceInsider, "the language of the amendment seems to allow a broad interpretation of national security and economic interests, as long as [NSF] is willing to explain and certify the merits of projects along these lines".

Successful employees adopt an insider's language, often a more formal way of speaking than you may be used to.