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Show A DEFENSE OF SLANG. Writer Believes It to Be the Language of Sincerity. So far from being an ovldonco of n national lovlty and lack of seriousness slang Is tho languago of sincerity. It is tho result ot nn lnstlnctlvo effort to got as far away as posslblo from everything llko pretentiousness. It Is tho nntlpodos of bathos. It Is tho langungo of tho vholo p'eoplo, becauso it is oxprcsslvo of tho national senso of humor that is nover so keen ns whon it contomplatos with a joy liko-wiso liko-wiso unuttorablo tho spoctaclo p'ro sonted by a fako oxp-ised. It Is blunt, It Is crudo, it Is brutul soraotimos, but it 13 always sincere It directs against tho cltadols of ovll tho mighty enginery en-ginery of laughtor. It does for our nascent abuses what tho mordant sat lro of Martial nnd Juvenal failed to do for decadent homo. Prof. Hormnn Sponcor in Booklovers' Magazine |