Agree, Jill, about the underground slang. What did they call it? Parlani?
Having totally disrupted sleep patterns at present my synapses aren't
functioning at full throttle.
Best
Dave
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From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: Running sex
on 9/6/02 11:35 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'd be pretty sure that 'queer' has been around for some time, a lot of
gay
> slang is closely related to theatrical patois, but 'gay' I suspect only
> really came into its own quite recently, and as a deliberate
appropriation.
> It does make Yeats' great poem 'Lapis Lazuli' read a bit odd these days. I
> know some independent, um, experts on these matters and I'll ask around
when
> I next see them.
Thanks Dave. I will as well. Someone I know did a dictionary of slang that
may be able to shed some light. I'm not wanting to lean too heavily one way
or t'other - but I do remember reading something vaguely illuminating and
suspect there is something in the 'underground' slang idea.
Cheers,
Jill
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