August 10, 2009
If You Dance With No Pants, a Well-Defined Body (of Slang) Helps
The hottest read this fall on the University of California at Los Angeles campus won't be part of the literature curriculum. The sixth edition of U.C.L.A. Slang has just come out, and it's a sizzler. Parents, order your copies now (contact linguist@humnet.ucla.edu). Cost of the book? $10.95, plus shipping. Insight into your offspring's social life? Priceless.
Before we get to the good and often profane stuff, here's a little background in standard English. Compiled
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