{"id":1063,"date":"2011-03-13T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2011-03-12T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T23:29:21","slug":"jargon-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/jargon-from-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Jargon from the future!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my RSS reader I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/04\/start\/jargon-watch \">article<\/a> from Wired.co.uk intriguingly titled \u2018Jargon Watch \u2013 April 2011\u2019. It took me a moment to realise (slow morning) but it\u2019s still only March, isn\u2019t it*?<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s the new jargon you can start using (from next month):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\nPeep-holing<\/strong><br \/>\npp. Driving a snow-covered vehicle with only a small hole cleared on the windscreen. Also called peephole driving. Many people don&#8217;t have time or are just too lazy to clear the whole screen, so they scrape a space on the driver&#8217;s side and then aim in the general direction of work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entomological terrorism<\/strong><br \/>\nn. The use of insects as a weapon. According to the US Army Medical Department Journal, the practice can be organised into three categories: attacking people directly (killer bees), destroying crops (locusts), and spreading sickness (disease vectors).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gutenbourgeois<\/strong><br \/>\nn. The people who maintain a smug belief in the primacy of print, particularly books, over digital works as a cultural driver, and the supremacy of professional writers, editors and publishers over amateurs. Coined by Paul Ford, writer and contributing editor at Harper&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aflockalypse<\/strong><br \/>\nn. The sudden death of a large number of birds. This year there has been a spate of mass bird deaths: 5,000 blackbirds in Arkansas; 300 turtle doves in Italy; up to 100 jackdaws in Sweden. Experts are unflapped: in North America, 50 million birds die every year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*OK, there\u2019s a simple explanation \u2013 the article\u2019s from the April 2011 print issue of Wired, but that\u2019s no fun, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my RSS reader I came across an article from Wired.co.uk intriguingly titled \u2018Jargon Watch \u2013 April 2011\u2019. It took me a moment to realise (slow morning) but it\u2019s still only March, isn\u2019t it*? So here\u2019s the new jargon you can start using (from next month): Peep-holing pp. Driving a snow-covered vehicle with only a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44],"tags":[969,813,663,51,968,44],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-words","tag-english-jargon","tag-english-language","tag-jargon","tag-language","tag-new-jargon","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}