APB: Non English Language Slang

[Robert Wachal]

Try Farmer and Henley's multi volume work on slang.

At 07:09 AM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
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>Can anyone help? I am looking for an overview, an article on or indeed the
>history - either in English or French (my language 'abilities' stop there)
>of non-anglophone slang, or any aspect thereof. I must assume that the
>relevant learned journals in the relevant countries - I am looking, on the
>whole, at European languages - may well have dealt with the topic in their
>own languages, but as I say, I am no polyglot. I am not optimistic. I have
>tried google but nothing appears - though I may well be asking the wrong
>questions. Such mavens as Jon Lighter and Jesse Sheidlower have admitted
>defeat, but if anyone has any pointers, better still titles, I would be
>hugely grateful.
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>Jonathon Green
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>PS. The two things I do have are a brief ref. in Mencken's American Lang,
>and some material in Partridge's Slang Today and Yesterday. But these
>refer mainly (Mencken wholly) to the distant past. I need information on
>17C and beyond.