Re: conculture

William Annis scripsit:

>         Certainly *using* Polari is a deliberate subculture
> self-identification, but as far as I know Polari developed into its
> role by absorbing vocabulary from other groups, most wonderfully
> Lingua Franca (some day someone will explain to me this thing about
> sailors and gay men).
To be a sailor is to be in jail, with the additional chance of being
drowned.
        --Sam: Johnson

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
Please leave your values        |       Check your assumptions.  In fact,
   at the front desk.           |          check your assumptions at the door.
     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan

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