I’m getting better at understanding them

But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    After I watched slang evolve multiple times across only a couple of generations, I stopped worrying about being in, and realized as a writer that slang older than the parental generation stays classy. Also, there’s no correct way to use a living language. References might tell us what was the norm at the moment they were published, but they were obsolete before they were sold.

    I may have to invent a dialect combining Newspeak and Nadsat and go extra crunchy.