lingo
单词辨析：
普通用词，常指某一国家或地区的语言或文字，也可指某种类型的语言。
literary/poetic language
文学/诗歌语言
legal/medical language
法律/医学术语
Chinese is my native language.
汉语是我的母语。
What languages can you speak?
你会说什么语言？
尤指外语。
I'd like to visit Germany, but I don't speak the lingo.
我想去德国游览，但我不会说德语。
If you live abroad, it helps to know the local lingo.
住在国外，学一点当地的语言自有好处。
指口语或正式的讲话，作后者解时常后接介词 on/about。
Most people have a smaller vocabulary in speech than in writing.
多数人口语的词汇量比书面语少。
She gave the keynote speech.
她作了主题发言。
指某种语言或方言。
French is her mother tongue.
法语是她的母语。
Those articles were written in tongues that I could not read.
那些文章是用我看不懂的方言写的。
相关例句：
Many people are so used to simplistic internet lingo that it is hard to communicate professionally.
许多人都习惯了简单的互联网术语，这是很难沟通专业。
I don't speak the lingo.
我不会说这种语言。
But, I do really admire the use of military lingo and terms, it really sets the mood!
但是我的确真的钦佩用行话和术语的主意。
The duck is also responsible for an interesting bit of architectural lingo: Robert Venturi coined the term "duck" to describe a building that conforms to its purpose, in deference to the Big Duck.
鸭子还负责一个有趣的建筑术语位：罗伯特文丘里提出了“鸭子”来描述建筑物符合其宗旨的尊重，对大鸭。
To explain, we'll need to introduce some more Eclipse lingo.
为了方便说明，我们还需要再介绍一些Eclipse术语。
I've developed some custom Ant plug-ins ( tasks in Ant lingo) which provide Python-specific features needed to do Python builds.
我已经开发了若干定制的Ant插件（用Ant的行话讲叫做task），可提供构建Python时需要的特定于Python的特性。