Robin, I note you haven’t addressed my 6 responses to your last post. Howver….point by point:
1) “Not really entirely to the central point of the discussion”
Robin, what, exactly, isn’t to the central point of the discussion? The comment you quote from me concerns the difficulty of Prynne’s poetry. What other discussion are you referring to?
2 “(except that it annoys me when words are used sloppily and with a specious pretentiousness) but "argot" isn't quite the correct term to use in this context.”
Robin, I think you will find that “argot” is usually accepted as one of the synonyms for jargon. However, I really don’t see how diverting the dissuasion to a more comfortable position for you addresses my original comment.
2) I think what Jeffrey is trying to point to is Prynne's use of non-standard terms, either drawn from terms-of-art (sometimes termed "jargon") and other non-standard and specialist registers. I have to say that "argot" is a peculiarly inept term to choose to indicate this, since if there is a single English word which would correspond to the originally-French "argot", it would be (not slang or jargon or general colloquial speech, but) "cant".
Robin, I think you will find that “argot” is usually accepted as one of the synonyms for jargon. However, I really don’t see how diverting the dissuasion to a more comfortable position for you addresses my original comment.
3) Given that one of the few registers (though I'm prepared to stand corrected here, and it's entirely possible that one could find in the Collected Prynne, an example or reflection of Villon's employment of coqillard speech) which Prynne *doesn't use in his poems is cant, the choice of the term "argot" is strikingly inappropriate .
Robin, I think you will find that “argot” is usually accepted as one of the synonyms for jargon. However, I really don’t see how diverting the dissuasion to a more comfortable position for you addresses my original comment.
3) The distinction between cant, slang, and jargon isn't exactly rocket science, nor is the relation of any of these to these of the term "argot", as I'm sure Prynne himself would be very well aware.
Robin, I really don’t see how diverting the dissuasion to a more comfortable position for you addresses my original comment.
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