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For many years there has been a wide popular interest in the subject of slang and unconventional language generally, as indicated by the number of dictionaries of unconventional words and phrases that have been published. Besides, there have appeared numerous essays on the subject. Among the more important collections of unconventional terms are those cited in the reference list appended to this study. Much of the popular interest in the subject has in the past been due to the question Of the relation of slang to the purity of the English language. Again and again a determined stand has been made against the supposed corrupting influences of Slang. On the other hand, it would be easy to collect an anthology in praise of slang. The philological tradition from Bopp and Pott to Whitney and March has been tolerant Of Change through the unconventional, and the list Of those who, either by precept or example or both, have been favorably disposed to the use of popular speech, contains such names as dequincey, Noah Webster, John Hay, Burns, Lowell, Howells, Bret Harte, Balzac, and many others whose names will readily occur to the reader. It is Lowell's view (40) that only from its roots in the living generations Of men can a language be re-enforced with fresh vigor for its needs; what may be called a literate dialect grows ever more and more pedantic and foreign, till it becomes at last as unfitting a vehicle for living thought as monkish Latin. True vigor and hardiness of phrase do not pass from page to page, but from man to man.
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- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 1333810164
- ISBN 13 9781333810160
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages53
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