Show A DEFENSE OF SLANG writer believes it to be the language cf sincerity so fai from being an evid evidence once of a national levity and lack of seriousness slang Is the language of sincerity it t tie Is the result of an instinctive effo effort t to get as far away as possible from everything like pretentiousness it is the antipodes of bathos it is the language of the whole hole N people because it is express expressive iNe of the national sen sense so of humor that is never so keen as when it contemplates with a joy likewise unutterable the spectacle presented by a fake ex exposed presed it is blunt it is crude it is brutal sometimes but it is always sincere it directs against the citadels of evil the mighty enginery of laughter laugh tur tir it does tor for our nascent abuses what the mordant satire of Alar martial thil and juvenil failed to do for decadent rome prof I 1 c erman spencer in booklovers Book lovere Al magazine agazine |