AMERICAN SLANG
“There is a great deal said about the damage done to the English language by the introduction of slang. American and otherwise,’’ Mr I Thompson, the authority on Lancashire dialect, said in a recent speech. "But. frankly, I am less afraid of slang than of prudery and what passes for refinement Slang does at least make fot liveliness and virility, and such slang as proves itself worthy must naturally keep its place in the language. Some of it is uncommonly expressive, and that is what a language is for—to express thoughts. Is it too much to say that we are in clanger of devising a language to conceal thought?”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23637, 22 October 1938, Page 2
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111AMERICAN SLANG Otago Daily Times, Issue 23637, 22 October 1938, Page 2
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