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«Slang is a poor man's poetry»
«The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.»
«Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work»
«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.»
«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)
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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.»
«All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.»
«Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so»
«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.»
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