{"id":15307,"date":"2014-08-07T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15307"},"modified":"2014-08-07T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:33:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-argot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15307","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: argot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argot is a specialised idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification.<\/p>\n<p>I guess classic examples would be the language used by criminal gangs or prison inmates, but the term argot is used more widely to refer to specialised jargon largely unintelligible to a lay audience.<\/p>\n<p>I came across the term in the Hillary Clinton memoir where she uses the word rather cynically to refer to the sort of language used by many in the diplomatic community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argot is a specialised idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification. I guess classic examples would be the language used by criminal gangs or prison inmates, but the term argot is used more widely to refer to specialised jargon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15320,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307\/revisions\/15320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}