Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I write in American slang.
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.
Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.