Slang prof

Explanations of bodagger and the like, over at SlangCity.com. Sez AC Kemp, slang operative since 1996, and now at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, “Last summer I even had a diplomat who wanted to learn slang to understand the jokes during cocktails.” (I don’t really understand why Spanish speakers lag so far behind English speakers (and Dutch speakers, for that matter) in terms of inventiveness, or, since we’re on a moan, why there are so few dogging (via Semantic Compositions) on this kind of stuff.)

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