Colin wrote:
"Americanisms are more universal than any and slang is
lovely, but, yes I have struggled with some and I think it is
a particularly british disease to use slang (in fiction) as
an excluding device."
Really? I can think of some American lit which uses slang in
the same way. Off the top of my head, there are the Holloway
House books, even if they do sometimes include glossaries,
and those of the beats. Granted, both come out of self-aware
subcultures, whether alienated from the mainstream by choice
or prejudice. Oh yeah, there's also exclusionary slang in
books written by criminals and drugusers, both of which
overlap the above categories.
Mark
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