i'm a freak ow wow

[emchy]

so i found this cool website with all of this slang from the 1920s - omigod i am in love

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

so all you bearcats quit beatin your gums and lets ankle to the bar and get zozzled with the big cheese and gab about our beeswax and spend our berries before they give us the bums rush. we'll have to avoid that cake eatin gum chewer though.

 

heh

Comments

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

English is so incredibly rich in slang. It's one of the reasons I love Chandler and why "The Sweet Smell of Success" is my favorite movie. It also reveals people's racism when they react badly to POC youth upholding a fine American (working class) tradition.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yea - i have a total love affair with slang
the way language changes and evolves is part of what ties me to times and places...

hence my grip on pop and party store as essential parts of my history

on the flip side of the "what are the crazy kids talking about" reaction - i have a cranky reaction to the dot-comming of language that i hear every day... i know it's just more slang evolution - but gak!