Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess
I know you like the way I am freakin' it.
I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it. — Big L
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words. — Nouman Ali Khan
Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them. — Tim McIlrath
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
You gotta school these young macks comin' up today...
I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs,
The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'. — Big Daddy Kane
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic. — Nelly
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned — Drake
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. — Tyler Oakley
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action. — Gore Vidal
I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted.
Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress. — Ab-Soul
Short Slang Quotes
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — G. K. Chesterton
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. — John Galsworthy
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop — Redman
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner
Correct English is the slang of prigs. — George Eliot
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. — Ambrose Bierce
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President. — William Allen White
Keep my planets in orbit,
Never forfeit or quit,
Move forward...
I talk with the awkward slang,
I walk with the Wu-Tang. — RZA
Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang
Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang
Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling
(I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train — ASAP Rocky
But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted. — James David Vance
They can bite, but cannot be us,
They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us,
You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas,
So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater — Andre Benjamin
I want a girl with extensions in her hair,
Bamboo earrings, at least two pair,
A Fendi bag and a bad attitude,
That's all I need to get me in a good mood.
She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang,
I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing. — LL Cool J
The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude. — Emily Post
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is. — Nina Simone
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard. — Chanakya
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J. B. Priestley
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better. — William Strunk, Jr.
I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us. — Franklyn Ajaye
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. — William Safire
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered. — Steven Pressfield
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. — Ambrose Bierce
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else — Jonathan Safran Foer
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around. — Neal Stephenson
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism. — Leland Ryken
I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me. — Jim Jarmusch
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour. — Ernest Hemingway
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. — Raymond Chandler
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. — Raymond Chandler
'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading. — Kevin Gates
I write in American slang. — Norman Spinrad
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. — Dennis Farina
Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day. — Valerie Estelle Frankel
I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but worldwide, it seems like young people think it alludes to being either the naughtier side of you, or the trendier, cool side of you. I like it either way. — Stella Maxwell
One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It has been the major task of his life for the last forty years. What Sharon wants to do is "shorten the lines," in military slang. He wants to give up some positions which are untenable, or which cost too much to keep, and to withdraw to where he wants Israel to be. — Uri Avnery
In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are. — Reginald Arvizu
Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English. — Daniel Kehlmann
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang. — Jesse Sheidlower
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