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Let's Take This Offline

Let's circle back around to brainwane's post about alternatives to corporate jargon. Hopefully we can ping this low hanging fruit as we pivot to a churn 😀

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Say it to my face in over 100 languages!

Art by Ron Mader, via Flickr

Don't limit yourself to just one language when using slang! Be multi-lingual via gwint's sharing of the untranslatable.co site and bask in the warm glow of being a language weltenbummler!

Slanguage

Styven Magnes : Speech balloonsStyven Magnes : Speech balloons by Marc Wathieu (cc by-nc)

Getting hip with the lingo, on Ask Me: When did the phrase "Garbage People/Person" become popular? | Did people actually say "shwench"? | In words like normcore, What is the meaning of the -core suffix?

... and recently on the blue, D'ya get me, bruv?; a new London accent called MLE has emerged in the last few years | A Tart My Dears, A Tart – how British gay men used to talk, featuring Polari, the cult language of UK homosexuals derived from theatre and circus slang

07/31/15
by taz

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