These jargons are hard to read for ESLs

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(1) It looks like "O.C.’s Adam Brody Is Jess’ Ex" mean "O.C.’s Adam Brody Is the ex-boyfriend of Jess." But what is O.C.?

(2) What is " guest stint"?

(3) Does " slated to shoot" mean "planned to show up"?

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O.C.’s Adam Brody Is Jess’ Ex
Welcome back to Fox, bitch!

The O.C.‘s Adam Brody is reuniting with his former network via a guest stint on New Girl, TVLine has learned.

In an episode slated to shoot next week (and air in early 2014), Brody will play Berkley, a long-ago ex-boyfriend of Jess’ (Zooey Deschanel) who’s now a married stay-at-home dad. He’s open with his feelings and prides himself on having mastered the art of being an ex, which is probably why he and Jess (allegedly) remained the best of friends after their breakup.

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[+3] - McTag - 12/06/2013 "Slated" means written, listed, scheduled. These things used actually be written on a slate, a flat piece of slate that can easily be erased and written over as required. In the...

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@oristarA,

Oristar, for many years, teenagers delighted themselves
in the invention of different new usages of English, un-known to their elders.
Thay act as if this shows higher intelligence and creativity in them
as distinct from the older generation which still controls them financially;
(thay are usually still in school and remaining dependent upon their parents).

These new usages are alien to native speakers also.

David

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@oristarA,

The O.C's is a TV series.

A guest stint is when someone appears briefly in a long running programme, usually a chat show, when the usual host is on holiday.

Slated to shoot means that they have been told they will start shooting film, (filming), next week.

This is not jargon. Jargon is specialised language used by professionals in a particular field, and is understood by others in the same field/profession. I used to be a civil servant and we used it all the time, certain words were shortened for ease of communication. Child Benefit was called 'Chib,' from its initials CHB, but you never called it Chib when talking to the General Public.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362359/

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'The O.C.' is the name of a teen-oriented American TV series, which derives its name from the location of Orange County, California.

Adam Brody, an actor in that series, is going to perform a guest stint* (play a guest role) in one episode of a different series called 'New Girl'. The episode is 'slated' (scheduled) to 'shoot' (be filmed) 'next week' (at the time the article was written) and 'air' (be transmitted) in early 2014.

*A stint is a period or session of work which is of a limited or fixed duration.

None of this is really 'jargon', and you should know that jargon is an uncountable word (we don't talk of 'jargons'.)

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Child Benefit was called 'Chib,' from its initials CHB, but you never called it Chib when talking to the General Public.

My office shares a site with the DWP and the smokers I meet in the car park are all going on about 'Pip' at the moment.

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@contrex,

It's not as tricky to get your head round as toodle.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

It's not as tricky to get your head round as toodle.

I once dealt with an organisation we called "Sizwo" - CISWO - the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.

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@oristarA,

1) "The O.C." is the name of an American television series about a group of teenagers who live in Orange County, California.

2) "Guest stint" means that an actor is going to appear in a few episodes of a television series.

3) "Slated to shoot" means that filming is scheduled at a certain time, date, etc.

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God but you all are quick!

There was only Dave's post at the time that I started to write my response.

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@InfraBlue,

InfraBlue wrote:

God but you all are quick!

There was only Dave's post at the time that I started to write my response.

His was at 5:52 PM (my local time); yours has 6:54 PM as the timestamp...

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@contrex,

Hmm, I do usually open a series of threads in different tabs and then read them in succession, but it didn't seem like that much time passed between opening this thread and posting my response.

A2K is messing with my perception of time!

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@InfraBlue,

"Slated" means written, listed, scheduled.

These things used actually be written on a slate, a flat piece of slate that can easily be erased and written over as required.
In the UK, if you ask the barman of your local pub to "put it on the slate", it means you'll pay him later, maybe at the end of the week. If he knows you, he might agree to do that! Wink

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

None of this is really 'jargon', and you should know that
jargon is an uncountable word (we don't talk of 'jargons'.)

Yes, we don 't. I never have, but we can;
e.g. we can refer to an electrician 's jargon,
plus that of an automobile mechanic and the jargon of a dentist,
a police officer, a short-order cook, in addition to that of an
astro-physicist, considered together as multiple jargons.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

e.g. we can refer to an electrician 's jargon,

Ok, I'll concede that; we can also talk about e.g. slangs, dialects or creoles, but it is definitely incorrect to call a word one doesn't understand, but suspects to be part of a specialised vocabulary, 'a jargon'. A piece of jargon, maybe. In this case the language is not jargon however.

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