I had the opportunity to spend last year as an Education Fellow at Stanford's d.school (an 'edu fellow' in d.school parlance) where I explored the idea for my new nonprofit Substantial, which launched officially this past Fall.
Eagleton casts a satirical eye at many attempts, but at the root of his argument is the question of how "tragedy" came to be used in so many different ways, often of sad stories not necessarily associated with dramatic presentation, and also in common parlance, where it can apply to anything from a plane crash to a lost football game.
Mr. Sheehan attributed the progress partly to the administration's determination to combat terrorism by limiting the number of places, or, in his parlance, "swamps," where terrorists can seek refuge because government control is weak or governments themselves are sympathetic.
In common parlance, this means "Where's the big bug gone?," but that would break the mood.
Or, to use Friends parlance, The One Where Bridget Gets Anal Sex From Hugh Grant and Likes It and Wants to Do It Again.
You have to use a broker, or to use the modern parlance a "platform", where you buy the fund and can watch how it is getting along.
The men were ordered out of the general prison population and into solitary confinement — or, in their parlance, "the box" — where they lived in tiny, elevator-size cells cut off from almost all human contact.
I stopped at Weirs Beach (or, in the local parlance, WEE-uz) where I played Skee-Ball in one of the boardwalk's arcades and then ate fried Oreos dredged in Hershey's syrup and powdered sugar.
Other pleasing examples, for any scholar of disaster movies, include "I can't believe this is happening!" and a truly outstanding contribution to the genre—"I'm assuming that your organization has situational awareness of the unidentified creature". In common parlance, this means "Where's the big bug gone?," but that would break the mood.
And that's how I heard for the first time how common parlance called this area where I was going to, where Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and Friedrichshain are meeting up.
The word franchise is common parlance in the States, where Henry heads the financiers of Fenway Sports Group, which revived the Boston Red Sox.
