Show USE OF SLANG delicate application of it t mad av fe a adepts adept the really amusing feature of slant says a writer in the illustrated am can is not the expression itself so ft much as the delicate and fanciful application of it made by skillful skill tul hands lontcher Dont cher know has been established so extensively and generally that the listeners ear takes no more notice of it than of a punctuation mark nevertheless it is an irritation to hear it constantly repeated you understand me you see what I 1 mean thrown in at the end of every sentence even though the conver conversation satio n may be about the simplest matter causes a nervously intelligent auditor to feel that he is being mistaken for f an imbecile to ask a man with special emphasis if he be understands tards when the subject before him could be understood by a child of 2 borders on insult the good humored pachydermatous speaker has no appreciation of the irritation ri he is causing nor of the keen sarcasm of the occasional reply he elicits slang seems to be the natural mode of expression for the boy at s school chool and college from him it s spreads to his sisters and not to know the meaning of all the complicated and arbitrary terms argues ones self out of the world of youth to be in sympathy with it one must have at least a bowing acquaintance with this strange and ephemeral language |