“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.
“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.