Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

American Editor

Clayton M. Christensen

There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.

American Author

John Cameron Mitchell

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

American Actor

Molly Holzschlag

The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.

Bernard Beckett

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

New Zealander Writer

Annie Lowrey

The U.S. has fewer, stingier, more complicated, and more conditional safety nets available to people than many other advanced economies - less generous 'automatic stabilizers,' in economic parlance.

American Journalist

Ravi Shastri

We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.

Indian Coach

Jody Williams

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

American Activist

Scott Westerfeld

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Marcus Sakey

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

Used to sound like part of a specific group or community.

Group Specific

Ensure you know the group's terms before using their parlance to communicate.

Avoid Misuse

Parlance can be informal and reflect everyday language of a group.

Not Always Formal

Parlance can involve technical terms that might need explanation outside the field.

Industry Language

Understanding industry parlance shows professionalism in that field.

Professional Understanding

Parlance can vary greatly even within one language, depending on the region.

Regional Vocabulary

Local parlance embodies cultural identity and habits.

Cultural Nuance

You may need to adapt your language to match local parlance when traveling.

Adaptation Needed

 but in this case, pay somebody, on your behalf, to not emit three tonnes of carbon that they otherwise would have. Now, in accounting parlance, this is what's called an avoided emissions offset. But it comes with a catch.

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