lingoes
Insider talk varieties
Lingoes is the plural of lingo, meaning specialized vocabularies or jargons associated with particular groups, professions, or activities.
Each field has its own way of talking: I couldn't follow the technical lingoes of the programmers and engineers.
The word carries a slightly informal or dismissive tone, suggesting insider language that outsiders find opaque.
Informal in-group vocabulary
- argotGroup-specific coded speech
- cantSanctimonious insincerity
- patoisRegional informal speech
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
dialect · idiom · colloquialism · street talk · shop talk · buzzwords · legalese · technobabble
One knowing many languages
- bilingualSpeaking two languages
- trilingualSpeaking three languages
- pidginImprovised contact language
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
mother tongue · foreign tongue · code-switching · language barrier · cross-cultural communication · second language · native speaker · fluency
Extracting meaning from something
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- subtitlingAdding translated screen text
- transcriptionWritten version of speech
transliteration · rendering · paraphrasing · decoding · deciphering · cultural adaptation · glossing
slang
Informal in-group vocabulary
vernacular · dialect · idiom · colloquialism · street talk · shop talk · buzzwords · legalese · technobabble · gobbledygook
polyglot
One knowing many languages
- bilingualSpeaking two languages
- trilingualSpeaking three languages
- pidginImprovised contact language
creole · mother tongue · foreign tongue · code-switching · language barrier · cross-cultural communication · second language · native speaker · fluency · borrowed words
interpreting
Extracting meaning from something
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- subtitlingAdding translated screen text
transcription · transliteration · rendering · paraphrasing · decoding · deciphering · cultural adaptation · glossing
lingoessilences
Stops from speaking
muteness · speechlessness · wordlessness · taciturnity · quiet
lingoesplain language
Easily understood communication
plain speech · plain English · standard language · common parlance · everyday language
- texting lingoAbbreviated mobile communication style