Re: Shelta, Polari, and my project "Nadsat 2000"

Roger wrote (about Polari):
"Very amusing.  Just a few of those terms are also present in US gay slang
(probably older generation)."
    You know, some Polari terms have penetrated American English to the
point that they are no longer marked as gay slang; for instance, a word like
"camp" is pretty universal here on the East Coast (due, no doubt, to
Baltimore's favorite son John Waters), and I've heard plenty of heterosexual
individuals use words like "gambs" (I believe that this word was more
popular during the fifties, as I've often heard it in films of that era) and
"trade" (although, admittedly, I have never heard the hets use this word
outside of a certain context.)

"BTW the chris-d site linked me to:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/corre/index.html  which has an interesting
discussion of (the original) Lingua Franca, with wordlist.  Et alia."

I have a site up with some complete texts in Lingua Franca; you can visit it
at

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~haberl/franca.html

Alan Corre offered to put a reference to this site in the 4th edition
(forthcoming) of his website on the Lingua Franca (the one above), as his
site has become something of an Internet clearing house for all things
Lingua Franca.
-Chollie
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