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Slang :

Language outside of conventional usage.
Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.

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Carl Sandburg: "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." # Slang # Language # Arts and Artists

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Miguel de Cervantes: "By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom." # Slang # Innovation # Words

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Raymond Chandler: "I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: Slang that has established itself in the language, and Slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print." # Slang # Language # Kindness

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Gilbert K Chesterton: "All Slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." # Slang

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Elizabeth Hardwick: "The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism." # Slang # Language # Cities and City Life

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Thomas Hardy: "Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel." # Slang

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Victor Hugo: "Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization." # Slang # Love # Life and Living

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