Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 19, 2004, 9:37 |
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On Apr 19, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Gary Shannon wrote:
>
> You are probably correct. In the 1920's the Chicago
> gangsters had their own slang, but it seems to have
> been limited to a few dozen novel words for such items
> of black market commerce as "hootch". For what reason
> I'm not sure, but the U.S. seems to be particularly
> devoid of any _extensive_ argots.
>
> Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong about this.
>
> --gary
>
New York Judeo-Syrian English. Very low mutual intelligibility with
'standard' American English varieties.
And it changes *very* fast.
As it says on John Cowan's Essentialist Explanations page, it's
...essentially Arabic curses and bad Ebonics spoken with a Brooklyn
accent.
-Stephen (Steg)
"let's go T.O. the meinish S.Y. G's at the centa after sh'bæt!"
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