{"id":10215,"date":"2023-11-26T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:45:59","slug":"wlbott-new-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10215","title":{"rendered":"WLBOTT New-Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We present a convenient guide to <strong>WLBOTT <\/strong>New-Speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Amicus WLBOTTis<\/strong> &#8211; a friend of the WLBOTT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Backwards Demonspeak<\/strong> &#8211; a dead giveaway that someone is possessed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>BLOTT <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>WLBOTT <\/strong>Blog Entry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>BSB<\/strong> &#8211; Bite-sized Banter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Certificate of Clairvoyance<\/strong> &#8211; minimum academic requirement for the Board of Elders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>C-FMUK<\/strong> &#8211; Classical FM (UK)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>CHL\/s<\/strong> &#8211; Cool Hand Lukes per second &#8211; rate of egg consumption (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=2230\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=2230<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Disturbinator <\/strong>&#8211; One who disturbs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Doubly fictional entity &#8211; <\/strong>twice removed from reality (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8987\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8987<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>DPOMLATMIR<\/strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t Pee On My Leg And Tell Me It&#8217;s Raining (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?cat=46\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?cat=46<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Dr. Pepper <\/strong>&#8211; Connie Reeves&#8217; horse (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5230\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5230<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Eclipsology<\/strong> &#8211; the study of eclipses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>FNTWLBOTT <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>F<\/strong>ear <strong>N<\/strong>ot <strong>T<\/strong>he <strong>WLBOTT<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Fromagerie<\/strong> &#8211; Cheese store (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8930\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8930<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>FTNF<\/strong> <strong>ratio<\/strong> &#8211; fried-to-not-fried ratio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Hujambo <\/strong>&#8211; Cheerful Ugandan greeting: &#8220;Literally, &#8216;You do not have anything?&#8217; &#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>IRL <\/strong>&#8211; In Real Life (<em>avoid as much as possible<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Karass &#8211; <\/strong>(from <strong>Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/strong>)<strong> <\/strong>team of individuals who do God\u2019s will without ever discovering what they are doing; every person belongs to one (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=2879\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=2879<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>LA<\/strong> &#8211; Large Art (by volume, not weight) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9254\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9254<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>LGS<\/strong> &#8211; Let&#8217;s Get Small<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>LOTE<\/strong> &#8211; Lives of the Elders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Meta-BLOTT<\/strong> &#8211; the BLOTT Behind the BLOTT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4891\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4891<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Mira que esta sopa se me est\u00e1 enfriando<\/strong> &#8211; (Spanish) Look, this soup is getting cold (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5276\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5276<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>MOB<\/strong> &#8211; Marching Owl Band<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>MoMo<\/strong> &#8211; National food of Nepal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Musophobia<\/strong> &#8211; (ambiguous; either fear of <em>mice <\/em>or fear of <em>museums<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>NAH<\/strong> &#8211; Need a Hint<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Near-moribund<\/strong> &#8211; When being a <strong>totalitarian dictator<\/strong> is not as much fun as it used to be (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8454\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8454<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>NFG<\/strong> \u2013 Never Fear the Gorgonzola<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>NHAD<\/strong> &#8211; National Hairball Awareness Day (April 26). Also coincides with Malaria TITPB&#8217;s birthday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Onya Marx<\/strong> &#8211; sister of Karl Marx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Opiniastrous<\/strong> &#8211; (via John Milton) Opinionated (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5052\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5052<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>NNP<\/strong> &#8211; Not Nice People (see also TITPB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>PNO<\/strong> &#8211; Post-Knee Operation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Rodin \/ Rodan &#8211; <\/strong>sculptor \/ arch nemesis of Godzilla<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Semi-Diarrheacal<\/strong> &#8211; BLOTT entry &#8220;loosely&#8221; based on a diary entry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Semi-Sequitur<\/strong>&#8211; Not quite a non-sequitur, but not quite a hemi-semi-sequitur<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>S\/UIRL<\/strong> \u2013 Sabbatical\/Unpaid \u2013 In Real Life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>SEP<\/strong> &#8211; Somebody Else&#8217;s Problem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Shield-maiden &#8211;<\/strong> (Old Norse: skjaldm\u00e6r [\u02c8skj\u0251ld\u02ccm\u00e6\u02d0r]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9120\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9120<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Shinbone Alley<\/strong> &#8211; Current residence of Blue Eyed Sally (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=6565\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=6565<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Smelt Petal<\/strong> &#8211; a variation of the Monkey Saddle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4700\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4700<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>\u00a1Tan Chulo!<\/strong> &#8211; How Cool!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>TITPB<\/strong> &#8211; T*** In The Punch Bowl. Occasional we must refer to those who are too vulgar even for <strong>WLBOTT<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>TMT<\/strong> &#8211; Too Much Turkey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>TTOBLW<\/strong><strong> &#8211;<\/strong> Travel Titans Opening Beautiful Lands of the World<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Twiny<\/strong> &#8211; Prestigious <strong>WLBOTT <\/strong>award given for generic excellence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>UT<\/strong> &#8211; Unit Tree (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9064\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=9064<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>UC<\/strong> &#8211; Unindicted Co-Conspirator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>URZ<\/strong> &#8211; Unstable Reality Zone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Ungawa<\/strong> &#8211; definition unknown (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=1507\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=1507<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>VOI<\/strong> &#8211; Vortex of Immorality (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4303\">https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=4303<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Wackadoodle <\/strong>&#8211; An eccentric or fanatical person<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WYNHA<\/strong> &#8211; Women You Need to Hear About<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT<\/strong> &#8211; World&#8217;s Largest Ball of Twine Tour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT DiRP<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>WLBOTT <\/strong>Disaster Recovery Plan (Basically, our plan is<em> \u201cRUN FOR YOUR LIVES!\u201d)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT-DORK<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>WLBOTT D<\/strong>ivision of <strong>O<\/strong>ceanic <strong>R<\/strong>esearch and <strong>K<\/strong>inetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT CTCH &#8211; WLBOTT<\/strong> Central Texas Corporate Headquarters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT DReSs <\/strong><strong>&#8211; WLBOTT <\/strong>Disaster Recovery Symposium<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT FOtG &#8211; WLBOTT<\/strong> <strong>F<\/strong>riend <strong>o<\/strong>f <strong>t<\/strong>he <strong>G<\/strong>eese<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT SEDH<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>WLBOTT<\/strong> Senior Executive Dining Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT SEGTiCLT<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>S<\/strong>enior <strong>E<\/strong>xecutive <strong>G<\/strong>lobal <strong>T<\/strong>eam <strong>I<\/strong>nterim <strong>C<\/strong>ommittee <strong>L<\/strong>eadership <strong>T<\/strong>askforce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT TOTOT<\/strong> &#8211; the Triumph Of Technology Over Talent (a core <strong>WLBOTT <\/strong>value)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WLBOTT WOW<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>WLBOTT<\/strong> <strong>W<\/strong>ord <strong>o<\/strong>f <strong>W<\/strong>arning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WTAWTAWLBOTT<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>W<\/strong>here <strong>T<\/strong>here&#8217;s <strong>a<\/strong> <strong>W<\/strong>ill, <strong>T<\/strong>here&#8217;s <strong>a<\/strong> <strong>WLBOTT<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WTBAB<\/strong> &#8211; Will there be a Buffet?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WTLEIDR<\/strong> &#8211; Way Too Long; Even I Didn&#8217;t Read<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>WWRNTLTRN<\/strong> \u2013 Women We Really Need To Listen To Right Now<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Zettajoule<\/strong> &#8211; somewhat more than the amount of energy to heat the Baltic sea by 1 degree C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We present a convenient guide to WLBOTT New-Speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-erudition","category-wlbott-corporate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17942,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/17942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}