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«Slang is a poor man's poetry»
Author: John Moore | About: Slang | Keywords: slang
«The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.»
Author: Anthony Burgess (Critic, Man of letter, Novelist) | Keywords: creators, downtrodden, slang
«Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Language, Slang | Keywords: rolled-up, rolls, slang, sleeves, spits
«And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: forehead, Philistine, slang, sunk, thence
«SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: accomplishing, audible, feat, grunt, grunts, hog, human ear, slang, utters
«The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Language | Keywords: colossal, polite, scavenger, slang
«All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: slang
«Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: obscene, slang
«I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: slang
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