The Slanguage of Lyrics

This is the first post of a new category of lyrics and music in slang. This song popped into my head this morning as I was thinking about the most recent slang I have heard. It is the first song to play on my ipod if I accidentally hit play all.  This is [...]

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It’s Begun

This is a poem that I wrote with some slang.  You can call it slang poem #1 or It’s Begun.
  It’s Begun

The night’s dank
Water hanging in the air
A cool breeze pushes my hair
Into my eyes, blank
My heart thuds quietly
At the rate of self-reflection
It wants out of my body
My mind goes the opposite direction
Searching into my core
I [...]

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Making Public What Ought to be Private – Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

For six years, in secret, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli wrote almost a sonnet a day. As a native Italian, he had resolved to write poetry in the tongue of the common Roman. He held nothing back as he imposed vulgar speech upon the sonnet form.
Eric Ormsby of The New York Sun wrote an excellent [...]

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CONTINUED-10 of the Lamest Slang Words I’ve Found Online (so far)

1.  Oatified – the act of coming down with a severe stomach ache
2.  ubered – to kick the crap out of something using your computer
3.  f00b – the combination of noob and foolish, a foolish noob
4.  lack off – get out, go away, i don’t like you
5.  eans – hold up there, simmer down, cool [...]

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Starting a blog opens your eyes (and ears)

Have you ever had a friend point something out to you that you had never seen before and all of a sudden you see it everywhere? It seems like there is so much in life that we don’t notice until someone points it out, or until we take the [...]

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