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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Words That Slang Uses

Drill is incredibly small in its vocabulary. It's probably no more than 2000 words, but I need to put it in. Slang has become homogenous and established itself over the centuries. In my same drill music, WAP starts off meaning to have sex in 1530. The penis is always a boy's toy. And slang picks up on that a long time ago. You've got this kind of daggers and guns and song way back 16th, 17th century. But what it's about is the slap of flesh on flesh. That's one of the things that is so important is the imagery works. We're not telling lies.

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