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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!!TOAL
  3. Message-ID: <9301031519.AA19319@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:19:32 GMT
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Graham Toal
  8.               <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
  9. Subject:      Re: Mousely Matters and Written Slang
  10. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  13. :And why do you find the concept of written slang odd, Graham?  I often am
  14. :exposed to slang in reading.  I would guess that "copacetic" shows up more
  15. :often now in writing than in speech -- although not all that often in either.
  16.  
  17. I meant I couldn't grap the concept of slang developing through written
  18. language.  Seems almost a contradiction in terms (unless you count
  19. modern net stuff but I don't call that slang myself).  I'm quite willing
  20. to believe however that slang may fall out of fashion and degenerate
  21. to being used only facetiously or humourously.
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