Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Generation X has been anointed as the "On the Road" of our time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...
Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquival vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquial vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
Sprinkling her talk with professorspeak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquial vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
...There is way too much street language," says Gleason Ledyard, a Christian book publisher. He says some people will be offended. Journalist P.K. McCary, who translated the first five books of the Old Testament into slang, insists that she is not "dissin' the Almighty." She has written biblical poetry and essays and developed the book by telling stories to children in Atlanta and Houston. The 39-year-old single mother believes she's filling a void. "While this is slang, it is not irreverent," she says. "It's a dramatic, colorful way of speaking. I think teenagers are going...