Nancy Gibbs

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

American Journalist

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

American Writer

Alex Horne

I was inspired by 'Bootylicious' being able to scale the dictionary walls thanks to just one individual, Beyonce. But Beyonce has the world's ears, so what I had to do was to work my word - which is 'honk', as slang for money, really really hard.

British Comedian

Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Dutch is our first language. When you talk to older people, you speak Dutch. It's more respectful. The local language, you talk with your friends. You don't talk to your parents like that with the local slang.

Surinamese Athlete

Corita Kent

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

American Artist

E-40

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

American Musician

Roy Clark

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

American Entertainer

Susie Dent

Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today.

English Scientist

Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

American Poet

Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

American Author

Slang varies between groups, often reflecting their shared experiences and values.

Group Specific

Slang words can change meaning over time or fall out of use.

Evolving Language

What's slang in one region or country might not be understood in another.

Not Universal

Slang isn't found in official dictionaries at first but might be added later.

Unofficial Words

Young people often create and spread new slang.

Understanding Youth

Slang can express identity and a sense of belonging to a particular group.

Identity Expression

Slanging is for informal situations with friends or in casual social settings.

Casual Conversations

Slanging shows creativity and can make language playful or humorous.

Creativity in Language

Using slang when speaking can signal that you're part of a group.

Expresses Solidarity

 us because they're one of three groups which are known to learn their vocalizations so we humans take learning for granted because we use it all the time when learning speeches youngsters and learning new slang as adults in Hmong birds though and among animals in general it's a relatively rare

Male Hummingbirds Sing...

 and he saw trolleys with long lines of people trying to get to where they wanted to go. He said, well, why don't I just put a sign on my car that takes people wherever they want to go for a jitney -- that was slang for a nickel. And so people jumped on board,

Uber's plan to get more...

 So then there was a lot more beers, and then the day ended with a challenge to bring the mustache back. So in Australia, "mo" is slang for mustache, so we renamed the month of November "Movember" and created some pretty basic rules, which still stand today.

Adam Garone: Healthier...

 so um also um what's really cool about this is that it understands slang like when when the kids talk to it you know it understands what uh what the kid is asking and also it and the main thing that i really really adore is that it actually leaves the

A global hackathon to...

 they dictated how words should be used, rather than documenting the way people actually used language in daily life. When Webster broke this convention and included slang words in his dictionary, critics accused him of polluting the English language.

How to get a word added...

 Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear,

Lemon Andersen performs...

 from this subsiding verb, our modern meaning of fizzle developed as slang in the 1800s. Originally used on college campuses to describe failure, specifically on an exam, it wasn't long before the word came to mean exactly what it does today

Mysteries of vernacular:...

 That grizzly image has since been immortalized as shorthand slang for single-minded cult-like thinking, "They drank the Kool-aid." Today, there are thousands of cults around the world. It's important to note two things about them.

Why do people join...

 billion people in the developing world who lack access to electricity another aspect that really excites me is how cheap these can be made these thin slang films are made by mixing two inexpensive readily abundant salts to

Uncovering a radical...

 important gaps in the English language. But how real are they if we use them primarily as slang and they don't yet appear in a dictionary?