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銆€銆€Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the direct creation and the metaphor: le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de
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銆€銆€Le dab est sinve, la dabuge est merloussiere, la fee est bative, the bourgeois is stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty.
銆€銆€Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in
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銆€銆€Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?
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銆€銆€The termination in mar has been added recently.
銆€銆€Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as it feels
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銆€銆€Contrary to what happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls upon it kills whatever it touches.
銆€銆€Thus slang is in constant process of decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never pauses.
銆€銆€It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten centuries.
銆€銆€Thus le larton (bread) becomes le lartif; le gail (horse) becomes le gaye; la
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