slang is mandatory sometimes

[Jonathan Lighter]

>>Hooray for barbarisms, right Jonathan?<<

If by "barbarisms" you mean linguistic innovations that I appreciate and
find useful but others don't, the answer is yes. If you mean the opposite,
the answer is no.

JL


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, David K. Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com
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> >.An interesting quotation from Rich Cohen's Israel is Real:
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> >"Now the Jews have returned their holy idea to the street, where, as is
> happening with the >Hebrew language, it has been barbarized and filled with
> slang."
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> Slang is not barbarizing, in my humble opinion.  It's the salt, pepper
> (including sometimes cayenne) of communication.  Without slang our language
> would be dull as dishwater.  Bring on the barbarisms.
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> Hooray for barbarisms, right Jonathan?
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> Regards,
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> David
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> Barnhart at highlands.com
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