I wonder how people got from fishing and dirt to 100 word short stories. o_O
Apparently the origin was in a Monty Python book. which might explain a bit :-)
Of course every word was slang once.
I think you and I are using "slang" to mean different things. To me, slang is words used by a small group of people, often intended to exclude outsiders. The web definitions I've found tend to support that. The fact that a word is newly coined wouldn't necessarily make it slang.
I think people who "misuse" it just don't know what it is supposed to mean, is all I was aiming at.
Many of them do (I've seen many discussions on the subject) but insist like Humpty Dumpty that it means whatever they say it means.
My objection is that it's like using "mouse" to mean "rodent". Because, while a mouse is indeed a rodent, so is a Capybara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara) and using "mouse" to mean both erodes clarity.
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Apparently the origin was in a Monty Python book. which might explain a bit :-)
I think you and I are using "slang" to mean different things. To me, slang is words used by a small group of people, often intended to exclude outsiders. The web definitions I've found tend to support that. The fact that a word is newly coined wouldn't necessarily make it slang.
Many of them do (I've seen many discussions on the subject) but insist like Humpty Dumpty that it means whatever they say it means.
My objection is that it's like using "mouse" to mean "rodent". Because, while a mouse is indeed a rodent, so is a Capybara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara) and using "mouse" to mean both erodes clarity.