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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

Jun 15, 2022

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It’s crude. It’s rude. And it’s a lot of fun. Slang has been with us for as long as people didn’t want others to understand what they were about. But what exactly is it? And has the nature of slang changed in our internet age?

Daniel is talking to eminent slang lexicographer Jonathon Green on this episode of Because Language.

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

54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

The Larrickan, the Subversive Mentality

I Choose to Be Bad at Math

Slang Without Drugs

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