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Stylistics- is the study of style, or the way language is used to create particular effects,
especially those associated with the expressive and literary uses of language.
SLANGS- words and phrases which are highly colloquial and informal in type, occurring
more often in speech than in print. It is consists either of newly crafted words or existing
words employed in special sense. It is making abstract concrete and memorable, by
employing imagery.
- are very informal English and maybe understood only within a certain group of
people. Words often have short shelf life, fading away after a generation. Some slang
words have endured and entered the general lexicon, including bogus, geek, mob, hubbub
and rowdy.
REASONS FOR USING SLANG:
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For fun
As an exercise either in wit and ingenuity on in humor
To be different; to be novel
To be secret or not understood by those around.
Slang exist alongside jargon and argot
The use of slang plays a major role in the maintenance of the gangs group
identity.
It separates the in-group, who use the slang, from the rest of society who do not
and are not part of the gang.
For example: Glasgow slang, American university (UCLA) slang, etc.
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Examples of Jargons:
1. Grease= money
2. A tiger hunter= a gambler
KINDS OF JARGONS
1. Medical Jargons
JT - A joint
IM - Intramuscular
Bang for the buck - A term that means, to get the most for your money
Due diligence - Putting effort into research before making a business decision
Suspect - A person whom the police think may have committed a crime
Code Eleven - A code that means the individual is at the scene of the crime
TD - Temporary duty
SQDN - A squadron
SCOTUS - Supreme Court of the United States
6.Internet Jargons
DifferentiatingTerms:
Gobbledgook-long stretches of pretentious, often unintelligible words; reminds one of the
gobbling snd gook-ing and pretentious strutting of a turkey.
Slang- informal, casual, often playful words. Typically short-lived coinages and figures of
speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness,humor,
irreverence or other effect.
Cant- sometimes used synonymously with jargon and slang, but more often referring to
hypocritical affectation, humbug-or whining manner of speech-of tramps, thieves, or
beggars.
Argot- secret language used by criminals; criminal cant.
Doublespeak-obscure, deceptive, inhumane, or propagandistic language-especially such
language with pernicious, social or political consequence.
Tech Speak-As defined by Edward Tenner in his book Tech Speak, or How to Talk High
Tech. It is post colloquial discourse modulation protocol for user status enhancement. It
is a referential system for functiona-structural, microscopically specific macroscopic
object redesignation. It is a universal semantic transformation procedure.It is a
holophrastic technocratic socilect. It is a meta-semiotic mode for task specific
nomenclature.
d. Bulbous- An itchy tube that runs the length of the wiener, or a sticky
membrane that scolds the testicles when they get out of place or
whatever.( like a caner in a male genitalia)
e. Jowls- An embarrassing body disease caused by personal negligence,
sort of like rickets.
f. Moist- Imagine a pale, unshaven, miserable kind of "Indoor Person."
He has cold, clammy hands that are always touching you, and there's
a ring of wetness around his mouth, because he's either constantly
licking his face or he just secretes some kind of acidic creep facejuice. That person can be described as "moist."
4.Innocent yet embarrassing words (O Bien recommended the following words to be
banned in the English language)
1. Rural- refers to genitals as the rural area, because they're wild
and overgrown, and full of bugs and stuff.
2. Ointment- Some kind of horrible growth, in an imagination. Like
a giant wart, but angrier. A huge, throbbing goiter that grows out
of your neck and ruins your good time.
3. Phlegm- just leaking everywhere, and bumming everyone out.
He smells like a bag of butts that got peed on.
4. Dollop- loose bit of skin fat that dangles under the chins of old
folk
Use it in an Awful Sentence:
"Doctor? I'm concerned about my 10-month-old just threw up about
a dollup of egg yolk and orange pulp. Should I take him to the emergency
room?"
No, just bury him and please never call me again, that fictional doctor
should have said.
e.Panties- An irritating piece of slang that horrible people would use to
describe someone who was acting prissy or cranky. Like, you know how the
most annoying character in a sitcom set in an office always accuses
someone who's pissed off as having "a case of the Mondays?" If you came to
work very irritable, that same person would say "Ooh, call the doctor, it looks
like Johnson over here has come down with a case of The Panties, heh heh.
Hope it's not contagious, or else we'll have a panty-demic on our hands!"
6. Using obscene languages (Example: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on a
new law Monday that bans swearing at arts, cultural and entertainment events in the
country.Any new film containing obscene language won't be granted a distribution
certificate, so there's no chance of seeing it at the movie theater. And copies of books,
CDs or films containing swearing can only be distributed in a sealed package labeled
"Contains obscene
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