54: Slang (with Jonathon Green) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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It’s crude. It’s rude. And it’s a lot of fun. Slang has been with us for as long as people didn’t want others to understand what they were about. But what exactly is it? And has the nature of slang changed in our internet age?

Daniel is talking to eminent slang lexicographer Jonathon Green on this episode of Because Language.

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