Word: slangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets of Washington, "Hinckley" is slang for PCP: the drug is so mind bending that the user can end up in St. Elizabeths, the local psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. was sent after shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hospital has tried to treat its notorious inmate like any other patient. But the futility of that became apparent when St. Elizabeths, maintaining that Hinckley's condition has improved, recommended that a judge allow him to leave for a one-day unescorted visit with his parents over Easter...
...through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...
Among other things, their studies suggest that, to those who have to listen to them, people who complain about themselves and mutter trivialities are worse than people who overuse slang or try too hard to be nice...
...least objectionable behaviors were "boring ingratiation," or trying to be funny and nice to impress others, and a mixture of distracting behaviors such as going off on tangents or overusing small talk or slang, such...
...speech. Much as Gerber wants to portray his desire for linguistic homogeneity and restrictiveness as consonant with the historic American values of equality and pluralism, it is in reality a poorly disguised call for institutionalized elitism. What the majority of the public is speaking is only "sub-standard" and "slang" because the author has chosen to call it that, and likewise the standardness of the speech of the privileged is purely arbitary...