 | John Camden Hotten - 1865 - 360 pàgines
...looked upon as apart of our tongue." — Addison's Spectator. A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE. SLANG is the language of street...Indeed, if we are to believe implicitly the saying of the wise man, that " there is nothing new under the sun," the "fast" men of buried Nineveh, with their... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1874 - 448 pàgines
...Magistrate's Assistant, 1852, p. \ A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST 'LIFE. LANG is the language of street humour, of fast, high, and...upon that subject, is the vulgar language of secrecy. It must be admitted, however, that within the past few years they have become almost indivisible. They... | |
 | Claes Annerstedt, Oscar Montelius - 1899 - 684 pàgines
...familiar with life, gaiety, town-humour and with the transient nicknames and street jokes of the day. Slang is the language of street humour, of fast, high and low life. It is the result of crowding and exitement and artificial life. Cant was formed for purposes of secrecy.... | |
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II ridiculous words make their first entry into a language ty familiar phrases ; I dare not answer for these that they will not in time be looked upon as apart of our tongue." — Addison's Spectator. A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF... 