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What this part of the storyline does communicate quite well is the arrogance and impudence Americans often display. Call me anti-American if you will, but the hodgepodge of American culture, from its fashion to its slang, does not have to be adopted by the world's population. I admire and love and contribute to American culture as much as the next person, but I do not believe it has be forced upon everyone else in the world. In many ways Americans are completely unaware of the sentiment this awakens in other people. They think people from other countries...
Golly, here's the first volume of a dictionary of U.S. slang...
...Other slang words are truly contemporary. Robert Bork, the hapless federal judge who got clobbered by political opponents when he was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, may take some grudging satisfaction in finding himself memorialized as a verb: to bork is to "attack systematically, especially in the media." Granny dumping, "the abandonment of an elderly person," is another term of recent vintage...
Inevitably, the bulk of Lighter's entries is concerned with scatology, illicit behavior, drunkenness, sex and genitalia. About 12 pages are given over to what is undoubtedly the most frequently used obscenity in the English tongue, the ever versatile F word. No other slang expression approaches it in its variety of permutation, application, hyphenation and intensification (e.g., unf -- -- -- ingbelievable). In its earliest recorded use (late 15th century), this word was possibly already taboo, says Lighter, who found it in a rhyming couplet written in cipher. The dictionary is rife with other synonyms for copulation; some are splendidly ingenious (for example...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...