Multilingual Rhyming Slang

Tue Jan 7 00:45:45 UTC 2003

>Especially apt from a Sokolowski. Polish is very rich in rhyming
>slang. I wonder what language isn't?

dInIs


>Hi folks:
>
>>- rhyming slang seems to have been, and remains an English language
>>phenomenon.
>
>I don't see how we can make such a generalization without near-native
>argotic knowledge of the languages we're excluding here.  Wordplay and
>fun with rhyming are a part of language, not a part of English.
>
>Just seems a bit myopic.
>
>I think the French may still sing "la p'tite fille" to the Beatles' "Let
>It Be."
>
>Cheers,
>
>Peter
>
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