{"id":20313,"date":"2008-11-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/11\/05\/microspeak-represent\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081105-00\/?p=20313","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Represent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more conventional definition of <i>represent<\/i> is along the lines of &#8220;to act as a proxy for&#8221;. An attorney represents his or her client in court. Your legislator represents you in the assembly. A token on a board represents your position in the game.<\/p>\n<p> At Microsoft, the word <i>represent<\/i> takes on a stranger meaning. Here are some usages inspired by actual sentences: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We need someone to represent this bug at the morning meeting. <\/li>\n<li>Can somebody represent which OS versions are affected by this issue? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> In the first case, I&#8217;m guessing that the word <i>represent<\/i> means &#8220;to act as an advocate for&#8221; or possibly just &#8220;to serve as a source of information on&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> In the second case, it appears that the word <i>represent<\/i> just means &#8220;tell us in an official capacity&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> These new senses may be influenced by rap lyrics and what is genteelly referred to as <i>urban culture<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p> If somebody actually knows what the word &#8220;represent&#8221; means at Microsoft, please add a comment. I asked the person who made the second statement for a definition, but what came back was merely the &#8220;act as a proxy for&#8221; definition, which clearly doesn&#8217;t make sense. (How can a person act as a proxy for a list of operating systems?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more conventional definition of represent is along the lines of &#8220;to act as a proxy for&#8221;. An attorney represents his or her client in court. Your legislator represents you in the assembly. A token on a board represents your position in the game. At Microsoft, the word represent takes on a stranger meaning. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-20313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The more conventional definition of represent is along the lines of &#8220;to act as a proxy for&#8221;. An attorney represents his or her client in court. Your legislator represents you in the assembly. A token on a board represents your position in the game. At Microsoft, the word represent takes on a stranger meaning. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}