The Slang Thread
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Slang is the fucking berries
Word to your mother's uncle!
Back in the 90's, Orla Brady was a 'biscuit.'
In this decade, she's a total 'smoke show.'
Word.
I'm just sayin'.
In this decade, she's a total 'smoke show.'
Word.
I'm just sayin'.
^ Now it's just written differently... 'Sup, Dawg!"
"Square" in the sense of rigidly conventional or old-fashioned has been around since the mid-1940s.
It's odd that saying something is "the shit" means the complete opposite of saying something is shit!And "sick" once meant "ill", "dank" meant "wet and chilly", and "the s***" meant digestive end-product. Now these things are all apparently good.
A study on accents in the UK
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-reveals-prejudice-people-northern-english.html
Evidence of compensatory attitudes was also uncovered whereby people in the north were often also "stereotyped as being friendly, outgoing and trustworthy."
Difficulty
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/w0oyp2/how_long_for_an_english_speaker_to_become/
On Words
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-reveals-tradeoff-complex-words-grammar.html
On poetry
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-sensations-experienced-poetry.html
The aim of the doctoral thesis was to study the palpability of language, i.e. sensory saturation, which has not found sufficient analysis and application so far. "In my research, I see reading as an impersonal process, meaning the sensations that arise do not seem to belong to either the reader or the poetry, but to both at the same time,"
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-reveals-prejudice-people-northern-english.html
Evidence of compensatory attitudes was also uncovered whereby people in the north were often also "stereotyped as being friendly, outgoing and trustworthy."
Difficulty
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/w0oyp2/how_long_for_an_english_speaker_to_become/
On Words
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-reveals-tradeoff-complex-words-grammar.html
On poetry
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-sensations-experienced-poetry.html
The aim of the doctoral thesis was to study the palpability of language, i.e. sensory saturation, which has not found sufficient analysis and application so far. "In my research, I see reading as an impersonal process, meaning the sensations that arise do not seem to belong to either the reader or the poetry, but to both at the same time,"
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This thread is fire.
Most thread is rather flammable.
I'm deadMost thread is rather flammable.
in Germany of the late 40s this discussion would have been called the weightiness in bags 
Being a child of the hippie era, I still call it cool and to where-the-pepper-grows with modern kids' slang. Ours was bestest!
Being a child of the hippie era, I still call it cool and to where-the-pepper-grows with modern kids' slang. Ours was bestest!
All been done before! Just ask Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Hugh Pickering.
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