Sentence examples for modern lingo from inspiring English sources
good, beautiful or, in modern lingo, cool, as in: "You ate all that poi?
Rueful self-mockery is a key element of the Minnelli brand – though "brand" is inappropriately modern lingo for a star whose bosom pals included the man she calls "Uncle Frank Sinatrara to you and me).
The music and lyrics are meant to have the folksy verve and satirical punch of Tom Lehrer, but they rely far too consistently on historical figures speaking modern lingo, and anachronism is a wearying form of humor.
In modern lingo, the Midas touch implies a prodigious gift: Its possessor profits from whatever he undertakes.
The setting is contemporary and, as the title attests, the vocabulary is peppered with modern cyber lingo, but the theme remains the same as it was in 1985.
Embedded reporters produce embedded language, the metallic clatter of modern military lingo: acronyms like TLAM's, RPG's and MRE's; catchphrases like "asymmetric warfare," "emerging targets" and "catastrophic success" -- the last not an oxymoron, but an irresistibly perverse phrase for a sudden acceleration of good fortune.
Like so much other modern internet lingo, the "shadow ban" seems to have come from the humor website and forums Something Awful.
But instead of classical idioms, each canvas displayed a popular phrase taken from modern Chinese Internet lingo, including xi da pu ben and tu yang tu senpo, a mocking, phonetic reference to an outburst by former President Jiang Zemin during which he used English to accuse Hong Kong reporters of being "too young" and "too simple".
In case you're not familiar with the lingo, "modern"- or as they were previously known, "metro" – style apps were touch-friendly apps introduced with Windows 8. They're also the only apps that run on Windows RT devices, so the transition over to the Windows desktop version of Skype will not affect that subset of Windows users.
Ken Singleton, an analyst for the Yankees for 12 years on the YES Network, said there was a learning curve to employing "modern-day baseball lingo" without alienating fans who are not interested.
