LINGUIST 2E03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Argot, St Mary-Le-Bow, Zoology
15 Sep 2016
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We use slang and parents use slang. Their slang either died out or became part of mainstream. Or they use old slang that is no longer modern so we laugh. It is one of those things that everybody can recognize and nobody can define . Many sociolinguists do not use the term because it is so difficult to define. Slang is difficult to define so it is difficult to study. Considerable neglect of the performance aspect of communication. How well we know language rather than how we use language. Slang may be different all over the world. Student slang used in the 1927 metate included the terms sheik for an attractive man, and. Claude monet paintings by monet from close distance look ugly but from far look nice. Girl who only looks good from a distance would be called a monet.
