Fw: what is slang

[Thomas M. Paikeday]

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From: "Thomas M. Paikeday" <thomaspaikeday at sprint.ca>
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: what is slang


> I goofed about the orality of slang, all right, but I am impressed by the
> style with which it was/is being conducted, with absolutely no "ad
hominem"
> comments that I can recall!
>
> ABOUT "BOOBS"
> Thanks, Joanne, for your comments. I can't wait to see the next edition of
> your MWD.
>
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> From: "Frank Abate" <abatefr at EARTHLINK.NET>
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> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:50 PM
> Subject: what is slang
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> >
> > Geoff N said, in reply to mine, what follows below.  I think he may well
> be
> > right -- things like "IMHO" and "btw" were invented for writing a sort
of
> > shorthand in a very informal register (email and instant messages), and
> > function only as written (pretty much), and yet are very like slang if
not
> > actually so.  So we seem to have written slang, from the e-universe.
> >
> > So I sit corrected.  Now having rethought, in the light of Geoff's
> examples,
> > IMHO, slang can be written in origin, sometimes.
> >
> > Frank Abate
> >
> > PS: Don't you just love email, and discussion groups (some of the time)?
> >
> > *********************
> > At 09:53 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, Frank Abate wrote:
> > >still hold out, saying that slang is fundamentally and essentially
> oral --
> > >in its **origin**.  Please reply if you can show that this is not the
> case.
> >
> > IMHO there is now **written** slang.  I'm not sure what other category
we
> > could put things like what you see at the beginning of this sentence,
not
> > to mention things like
> >
> > cu, l8r, ymmv
> >
> > and all the stuff used in Instant Messaging.  (I note, incidentally,
that
> > Eudora 5.2 did not flag the first two items above (i.e. the
spell-checker
> > didn't underline them), which, I suppose, counts against my claim that
> this
> > stuff is slang.  AFAIK linguists haven't classified this stuff yet (but
I
> > may be wrong--I'm a newbie on this list).
> >
> > Geoff
> > Geoffrey S. Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
> > Faculty Liaison, Computing and Information Technology,
> > Wayne State University
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > Frank Abate
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> > abatefr at earthlink.net
> >
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