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terryfrost at 12:27pm on 24/08/2006
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I'm sitting in Cafe Coco on Smith Street in Fitzroy waiting for lunch. I love cafes that do free wifi and Travelbox, the new laptop, seems to do the job nicely. (One has to check out the new gadgets.)
One of the things I've been researching for autodidactic reasons is slang, cant, patois, techtalk, geekspeak... variations on the mother tongue. Here are some links to interesting aspects of the way we palaver.
Polari- Gay Slang From The 20th Century as heard in i/Round The Horne spoken by Julian and Sandy
Hugh Young's Lexicon of Polari
The Bible Written in Polari/
An article on "Gayle" - a South African variation
Grunge Speak
Stock Market Slang
US Navy Slang
Jamaican Creole
That will get you started, anyway.
One of the things I've been researching for autodidactic reasons is slang, cant, patois, techtalk, geekspeak... variations on the mother tongue. Here are some links to interesting aspects of the way we palaver.
Polari- Gay Slang From The 20th Century as heard in i/Round The Horne spoken by Julian and Sandy
Hugh Young's Lexicon of Polari
The Bible Written in Polari/
An article on "Gayle" - a South African variation
Grunge Speak
Stock Market Slang
US Navy Slang
Jamaican Creole
That will get you started, anyway.
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