Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in 'dialect' and humor in slang.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the jab, good with the stab.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
I write in American slang.
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