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...labor camp, Uspensky's dictionary was born. "On the way to the camp, I encountered some convicts who were using a sort of prison jargon," he remembers. "In the camp, people were talking in a Russian so rich in slang terms and thieves' cant that at first I couldn't understand...
Some of the words poke fun at party leaders, others at the political situation itself. In camp jargon, the word for the Soviet Union means "big zone." "The prison camps are usually called zones, since if you try to go on or off them, you are usually shot at," Uspensky explains. "This word just means that the whole country is a big prison...
...political allegiance and allowed to wear their own clothes, as well as to refuse prison labor and other regimentation. But Protestant and Catholic terrorists convicted of offenses committed after March 1976 are housed in concrete cell blocks (commonly called "H-blocks" because of their shape) along with "O.D.C.s," prison jargon for "ordinary decent criminals" whose offenses are unrelated to the troubles...
...stamp of femaleness, is despised," she wrote. "The woman artist, seeing herself as loathed, takes the very mark of her otherness and by asserting it as the hallmark of her iconography, establishes a vehicle by which to state the beauty and truth of her identity." The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women. Questions of aesthetics then dissolve...
Many faculty feel students can too easily manipulate the system to take trivial or easy courses--"jelly rolls," in Rice jargon--in areas outside their major, Wiener said...