Тема: Slang

Sound is sometimes used as a basis for this type of slang , as, for example, in various phonetic distortions (e.g., pig Latin terms). It is also used in rhyming slang , which employs a fortunate combination of both sound and imagery.

Modern Cockney slang that is being developed today tends to only rhyme words with the names of celebrities or famous people. There are very few new Cockney slang expressions that do not follow this trend.

Slang words cannot be distinguished from other words by sound or meaning. Indeed, all slang words were once cant, jargon, argot, dialect, nonstandard, or taboo.

When subcultures are structurally tight, little of their language leaks out. Thus the Mafia, in more than a half-century of powerful criminal activity in America, has contributed little slang .

Polari became an appropriate tool with which to confuse and confound the naff omees (straight men). It traveled the world via the sea queens, who incorporated navy slang into a new version of the language and also accommodated local dialects and...

In addition to occupational and professional groups, there are many other types of subcultures that supply slang . These include sexual deviants, narcotic addicts, ghetto groups, institutional populations, agricultural subsocieties, political...