What Is the Purpose of Talking About Slang?

Sally Kohn: Do we need the word? Isn't it only problematic? Or am I missing something? How would you respond to Pontus' question? For many years, for centuries, well, slang is first used in the context of language in approximately 1756. And so that's what it seems to me that this Lord slang is. She sent it off to Peter Gilliver, a senior editor at the Oxford English Dictionary.