{"id":36063,"date":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/03\/28\/the-ceo-to-english-phrase-book-a-continuing-series-from-slate\/"},"modified":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T07:04:00","slug":"the-ceo-to-english-phrase-book-a-continuing-series-from-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050328-00\/?p=36063","title":{"rendered":"The CEO-to-English Phrase Book, a continuing series from Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m an economics geek, so of course I&#8217;m a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2077581&amp;qp=26141\"> Slate&#8217;s Moneybox column<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2077581&amp;qp=27235\">The Dismal Science<\/a> and most of all, Steven Landsburg&#8217;s gleefully provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2077581&amp;qp=26302\">Everyday Economics<\/a>. I&#8217;m also a language geek, so I&#8217;ve been quite enjoying the occasional Moneybox articles which decode CEO speak into plain English titled <i>The CEO-English Phrase Book<\/i>, thereby combine two geek topics into one. <\/p>\n<p> Terms that have been defined so far: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2112021\"><i>retirement<\/i><\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2112545\"><i>transformational event<\/i> and <i>re-examination<\/i><\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2112896\"><i>manage for cash<\/i><\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2115065\"><i>legacy costs<\/i><\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an economics geek, so of course I&#8217;m a fan of Slate&#8217;s Moneybox column as well as The Dismal Science and most of all, Steven Landsburg&#8217;s gleefully provocative Everyday Economics. I&#8217;m also a language geek, so I&#8217;ve been quite enjoying the occasional Moneybox articles which decode CEO speak into plain English titled The CEO-English Phrase [&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":[103],"class_list":["post-36063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m an economics geek, so of course I&#8217;m a fan of Slate&#8217;s Moneybox column as well as The Dismal Science and most of all, Steven Landsburg&#8217;s gleefully provocative Everyday Economics. I&#8217;m also a language geek, so I&#8217;ve been quite enjoying the occasional Moneybox articles which decode CEO speak into plain English titled The CEO-English Phrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063","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=36063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/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=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}