{"id":2018,"date":"2002-03-26T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2002-03-26T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2002-03-26T12:11:16","slug":"not_to_condone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/26\/not_to_condone.html","title":{"rendered":"Not to condone un-PC speech or anything, but …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stacy has some rather … interesting examples of contemporary British slang <\/a>at her blog, most of them not the sort of thing you want your kids saying. But damned funny in an imaginative way (and liable to make you blow whatever you are eating or drinking out of your nose, so be warned).<\/p>\n

Language — slang, in particular, as “the people’s language” — is interesting. To what degree does language influence thinking, as Orwell suggested in 1984<\/i>?. If a slang term comes along that is funny, catchy — and carries a particular spin on a topic, does that spin influence how that topic is thought of? Or is it that the spin resonates as true, and therefore the term becomes catchy and funny? Or (since that’s annoyingly the way the world tends to work) is it a bit of both?<\/p>\n

I’m belaboring this, but I find such questions about language fascinating. Which is why I would have linked to the articles floating around about post-9\/11 teen slang here in the states, but they were ubiquitous and therefore unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stacy has some rather … interesting examples of contemporary British slang at her blog, most of them not the sort of thing you want your kids saying. 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