Slang Is America By Walt Whitman And Gelt Burgess

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Slang, the way people of this world use daily to expressed how they feel. Slang allows words to have varies meanings; so many meanings that some become evanescent. Some people believe that slang is informal, sloppy, and ghetto,but slang is poetic and when used it connects with other people. Slang is America. The famous poets Walt Whitman and Gelt Burgess points of views are similar on slang and they way it is positively expressed.

“Slang, profoundly consider’d, is the lawless germinal element, below all words and sentences, and behind all poetry, and proves a certain perennial rankness and protestantism in speech( Whitman 1 )” in words of the famous poet Walt Whitman. Whitman is telling us that slang is the base of all language.

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