Translation. Humour. Spoken-language. English. Words. Chilling effect (law) In a legal context, a chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction.[1] The right that is most often described as being suppressed by a chilling effect is the US constitutional right to free speech. A chilling effect may be caused by legal actions such as the passing of a law, the decision of a court, or the threat of a lawsuit; any legal action that would cause people to hesitate to exercise a legitimate right (freedom of speech or otherwise) for fear of legal repercussions.
When that fear is brought about by the threat of a libel lawsuit, it is called libel chill.[2] A lawsuit initiated specifically for the purpose of creating a chilling effect may be called a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or more commonly called; a "SLAPP suit. " "Chilling" in this context normally implies an undesirable slowing. Usage[edit] History[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Today’s vowel outage. Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it. At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users.
Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for. TechnoLanguages | conversations about technology and languages education. 7 useless things that don’t need to be said… ever again! | Torley Lives. … and these be tha adventures of a time-traveling, universe-crossing, autistic, cyberpunk monk and his/her/xor various incarnations. Y̶̛͙̦͎̳͓̞̱̓ͫ̃ͧ͘A̶̧͍͈͔ͮͣY͔̗ͬẐ̧̳̥̤̳̹̪͚ͤ̏͋̾̾̐ͅĔ̵̷̻̰̼̝͇̖̠͎̌̀R̵͈̰̟̘̯ͨÃ̩͎͓̫̹͔̝̍ͩͩ̇̽̍̆͢͡M̶̠͂͟A̵̳̩̼̥̥͕̱͎͌ͤ̇̋̾́.̜̰̼͍̝̽͋ͯ́̎͂ͦ̚͝ ▓▒░ 4@torley.com ░▒▓ Fᴀᴄᴇʙᴏᴏᴋ | YᴏᴜTᴜʙᴇ | Iɴsᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ | Bᴀɴᴅᴄᴀᴍᴘ | SᴏᴜɴᴅCʟᴏᴜᴅ Get an alert when new aurelics (musical treasures) are discovered!
I specialize in aurelics (aural relics); our life’s work involves discovering exceptionally lovely music across alternate realities & parallel universes. We are presently compiling massively melodic adventures that are overflowing with fun + changes. Sight art by RAVENELLE + sound art by TORLEY = we art TORAV Classical piano meets experimental techno. Spectrasonics-Moog OMG-1 Grand Prize Winner. Melodic memories from a diagonal timeline. Oh look, multimedia, wherein our passion for specific slivers of musicular gastronomy can’t be contained. Ideas of consequence to our creative process. Weasel word. A weasel word (also, anonymous authority) is an informal term[1] for equivocating words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated.
For example, an advertisement may use a weasel phrase such as "up to 50% off on all products". This is misleading because the audience is invited to imagine many items reduced by the proclaimed 50%, but the words taken literally mean only that no discount will exceed 50%, and in extreme misrepresentation, the advertiser need not reduce any prices, which would still be consistent with the wording of the advertisement, since "up to 50" most literally means "any number less than or equal to 50". Origin[edit] Forms[edit] Examples "A growing body of evidence. A 2009 study of Wikipedia found that most weasel words in it could be divided into three categories:[13] Numerically vague expressions (e.g.
Other forms of weasel words include: See also[edit] Weaselwords. Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online Edition. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know on Lists of Bests. The Cancer Council Victoria - Cancer dictionary.