Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radio talk-show host Cliff Kincaid twice called Connie Chung, the prominent Asian-American television reporter and anchor, "Connie Chink" while on the air, and he claimed that is "common slang and 'perfectly acceptable language...
...right attitude, according to the targets of ridicule, would be shown by skipping class, talking slang and, as Tachelle says, "being cool, not combing your hair. Carrying yourself like you don't care." Social success depends partly on academic failure; safety and acceptance lie in rejecting the traditional paths to self-improvement. "Instead of trying to come up with the smart kids, they try to bring you down to their level," says eighth-grader Rachel Blates of Oakland. "They don't realize that if you don't have an education, you won't have anything -- no job, no husband...
Karen Hartman, author of the play and now a senior at Yale, was not content to simply explore the conflict between making art and making love in a retrospective of the famous couple. She creates a modern day O'Keefe/Stieglitz couple who speak in contemporary slang instead of smooth myth tones. While Georgia says passionately to Stieglitz, "I will not be your metaphor," her modern day counterpart curses "Fuck...
...dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist spy; he had once lectured successfully in Warsaw, and his name, curiously, lives on as a Polish slang term for something suspect or obscene...
...more familiar with Yankee accents, thanks to CNN's worldwide reach. Explains Peter Walton, executive producer of the program: "We realized what people want is American English. People were asking, 'Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best to adopt American-style slang. A budding British John Madden describing a soccer game dustup not long ago told listeners that an injured player was "stretchered" off the field. Next time, try "Boom! He's outta there...