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However many words the Inuit may have for snow, the raver probably surpassed that when referring to E. So well did this alternative vocabulary work that the Shamen were able to appear on Top of the Pops – during Drug Awareness Week no less – and rhapsodise about its effects in plain sight, by dropping rave-ese throughout their hit single Ebeneezer Goode.

If it's a regularly used word in your vocabulary, work on replacing it with something less offensive.

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We accepted homogeneity, generational synchronism, an unreserved seat on the 5 48 and the mantra "It can't happen here," in trade for letting our guard down.The suburbs are nirvana for the urban neurosis, a crisp, peaceable frame of reference, the relevant vocabulary worked out by smiling realtors: "minutes from shopping," "a flower-lover's paradise," etc., etc.

Vocabulary works like The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Union List of Artists Names (ULAN), The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and databases like The Getty Provenance Index, and the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) have all encountered the new digital reference domains and flourished, but in ways that no one imagined before the Internet.

One of the first and most serious problems when people decide to work together is overcoming the communication barrier, because disciplines and individuals have different vocabularies, work ethics, and standards.

Complex schemas and semantically defined vocabularies work well where basic concepts have reached some degree of stability, but this is not always a given in research.

The brisk dialogue is replete with vocabulary and work practices only an insider could know.

"Artists like ROY LICHTENSTEIN, ANDY WARHOL, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, are the kind of vocabulary I work with".

(Clearly my public-outreach vocabulary needs work).

There's one message, and it isn't technical". In addition, Westrelin said that the industry needs to shake the dust off our definition of "fine" wine and instead invent words, grammar and vocabulary that work today.

One thing I've done over and over is to bring people from different disciplines into a room, create a common vocabulary and work through a particular issue or problem that needs to be resolved.

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