For Better or for Worse

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:53 PM -0500 1/26/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Jonathan Lighter:
>>
>>These odd terms seem to be made up.
>
>John Baker:
>>
>>The Comics Curmudgeon blog, http://joshreads.com/, discusses this strip.
>>According to one of the comments, the slang terms are indeed made up.
>
>Someone on the comments list got this official response from the "FBorFW
>Team":
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>Thanks for writing!
>  >
>>Yes - Lynn did make up the ‘jive talk’
>>that the kids in the strip are using.
>>
>>Have a great day,
>>
>>Allison
>>Allison Zadorozny
>>FBorFW Team
>  >www.fborfw.com
>
>This reminds me of the old "grunge speak" hoax that the New York Times
>fell for: <http://www.factoftheday.com/grungespeak.html>.  Perhaps Lynn
>Johnston was trying to see if she could get some coinages into
>circulation.

Well, it worked pretty well for "fetch", in real life if not in the
"Mean Girls" version of Evanston...

Larry