Radicalism of reading

[Joshua Fruhlinger]

At 12:07 PM -0500 05.05.97, David Casseres wrote:
>Ted sez
>
>>JF sez:
>>>
>>> Aren't all of these "forms" of English simply called argot(s)?
>>
>>Or cant(s) or patois.
>
>But all of these -- well, at least the first two -- are derogatory, and
>none of them is used by people who actually study the variations of
>language.

Gee...I seem to remember learning the word "argot" in my linguistics and
sociology texts at the University of Chicago.

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