Word: slang
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...produce another Shakespeare or a Bible translation equivalent to that produced by King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon-are victims as well as victimizers of the language we have inherited...
...cockney slang, there...
...dividing the pound into 100 new pence instead of 240 old pennies, they lost all their old coins. The ha'penny, thrup'ny and sixpenny pieces and the shilling in all its variations are being withdrawn from circulation. They lost something more: many colorful examples of cockney slang, which substitutes rhymed phrases for action words-such as "gawd forbids" for bothersome kids and "trouble and strife" for a nagging wife. No rhymes have yet surfaced for the new currency, hence the following lament...
Then, asked why Greek schoolchildren are taught in Katherevousa, a mixture of ancient and modern Greek which had recently been spoken only in select circles, and now the official language-he said that it differs from modern Greek only as much as proper diction differs from slang...
...Love Story has a few tender moments. The rest is sarcasm, one-upmanship and slang. People must be starved for tenderness to rate the story so high in romance...