argot

Gilles Deleuze says math is not a science, but a "prodigious argot".

This is an emoji argot, an obscure language used to throw off casual spying.

The opposite of hype in technology is argot.

* Though later PDP-11s like the LSI-11 did have microcode -- AKA, in the argot of the time, a "writable control store"

I've never heard it either, but I could believe it's in the argot of military airmen in some English-speaking country.

I don't think anyone would use that particular construction, unless it's some weird dialect of pilot-speak or argot among anti-aircraft folk that I'm not aware of.

I’ve long had the fantasy that machines that communicate a lot amongst themselves could develop an optimized “argot” just as humans do. For example we’re on the local lan and could dispense with the fragmentation infrastructure.

Verlan, like Lunfardo, often makes up basilect argot vocabulary by swapping syllables from the acrolect.

It has even entered the argot, with people likely to refer to the concept of cash savings as 'having a few quid in the post office'.Please note that it hasn't saved the world, or even prevented post offices from closing.

I'm an infrequent enough Reddit user that their odd argot and mile-long discussions about ponies are really a disincentive for me to read past the intro to an AMA. Using HN for topically relevant AMAs provide a welcome relief from Reddit's tiresome fractals of inane comments.

I hope tech crunch did this purely tongue in cheek, if it weren't for the likes of them, the terms they are fileting are the argot they and their industry, tech 'journalism,' pick up, amplify, popularize and abuse wouldn't become ubiquitous.