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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.


Carl Sandburg


#language #never #no respect #people #polite

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.


Carl Sandburg


#hands #language #rolls #slang #sleeves

I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.


Gena Showalter


#grandparents #teenage-slang #funny

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!


Ethan Luck


#real #slang #unreal #funny

rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.


David Levithan


#acronyms #emoticons #humor #internet-slang #humor

<3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.


John Green


#internet-slang #internet

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.


Ike Turner


#american #china #everyone #get #slang

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.


Anthony Burgess


#great #slang

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.


Michael Imperioli


#been #blue-collar #city #detroit #filmed

Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.' Huh?' Quite so. The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.' The manner in which the other were regarding him/her made Can O' Beans feel compelled to continue. 'The word neat, for example, has precise connotations. Neat means tidy, orderly, well-groomed. It's a valuable tool for describing the appearance of a room, a hairdo, or a manuscript. When it's generically and inappropriately applied, though, as it is in the slang aspect, it only obscures the true nature of the thing or feeling that it's supposed to be representing. It's turned into a sponge word. You can wring meanings out of it by the bucketful--and never know which one is right. When a person says a movie is 'neat,' does he mean that it's funny or tragic or thrilling or romantic, does he mean that the cinematography is beautiful, the acting heartfelt, the script intelligent, the direction deft, or the leading lady has cleavage to die for? Slang possesses an economy, an immediacy that's attractive, all right, but it devalues experience by standardizing and fuzzing it. It hangs between humanity and the real world like a . . . a veil. Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all, and stupidity eventually makes them crazy. I'd hate to ever see that kind of craziness rub off onto objects.


Tom Robbins


#language #mental-illness #slang #word-choice #beauty






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