Long story short he got lucky in the 90s with an inheritance and a publisher and can now devote his life to researching and publishing English slang. It's also interesting to me because it's a project that started as a book but has now migrated successfully to the Internet, both for publishing the dictionary and for doing research for updates to the dictionary.
Tough guys with Mullets that blasted Metallica said "Mint" (term of approval) every sentence back in 1980's Long Island. I just learned it also meant "a trace of homosexual tendencies" a few decades prior.
I did a lot of text cleaning a while ago and we tried to normalize curse word spelling as part of that. That was, by far, the most interesting text cleaning I have ever done. It is really clear how much innovation in the English language is happening there.
I have a copy of Greens printed in the 1990s. It's very extensive and frankly seems like a hopeless exercise to gather them considering how fast language evolves, as well as hyperlocal terms.
Culture as language, culture as dress. Burberry was a ww1 trench coat, the hunting shooting fishing set and then descended to be ambitious working class Essex Chav. Same with slang, polari was gay slang, BBC radio artful in-joke, normalised, now obscure.
Old is new is old. Kids hate nothing more than grandma throwing gang signs they learned from their elders not knowing the elder in question learned it from grandma first.
People probably get phd in the second order differential of slang rate of change.
NelsonMinar|16 days ago
Long story short he got lucky in the 90s with an inheritance and a publisher and can now devote his life to researching and publishing English slang. It's also interesting to me because it's a project that started as a book but has now migrated successfully to the Internet, both for publishing the dictionary and for doing research for updates to the dictionary.
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mmsc|16 days ago
It's interesting reading them as a native speaker, as there's so few that I could even begin to guess what they mean.
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yread|16 days ago
https://www.pismak.cz/dilo/41683/
fanf2|16 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F-Word_(book)
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thrownawaysz|16 days ago
>F
>[SE fail, also used as a mark for inadequate work, or fuck!]
>(juv.) response to someone else’s bad news.
F doesn't come from fail but from Call of Duty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_F_to_pay_respects
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects
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ggm|16 days ago
Old is new is old. Kids hate nothing more than grandma throwing gang signs they learned from their elders not knowing the elder in question learned it from grandma first.
People probably get phd in the second order differential of slang rate of change.