[Corpora-List] Corpora containing common English words including slang.

[maxwell]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:07:31 -0500, amsler at cs.utexas.edu wrote:
> The Wikipedia entry referenced makes the distinction between slang and  
> jargon. I am not as certain that holds up...

I agree about the failure of the distinction, but we could try--maybe we
could paraphrase another famous definition: Jargon is slang with a
conference and a journal.  Or maybe someone here can come up with a better
X and Y, as in "Jargon is slang with an X and a Y."

   Mike Maxwell

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