Special colloquial vocabulary
I. State the function of slang in the following examples, also paying attention to the morphological and syntactical characteristics of slang units and semantic and structural changes some of them underwent to become a slang expression.
1. "I'm the first one saw her. Out at Santa Anita she's hanging around the track every day. I'm interested: professionally. 1 find out she's some jock's regular, she's living with the shrimp, I get the jock told Drop it if he don't want conversation with the vice boys: see, the kid's fifteen. But stylish: she's okay, she comes across. Even when she's wearing glasses this thick; even when she opens her mouth and you don't know if she's a hillbilly or an Okie or what, I still don't. My guess, nobody'll ever know where she came from. (T. C.)
2. Bejees, if you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come.to the wrong house. No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! (O'N.)
3. A cove couldn't be too careful. (D. C.)
4. I've often thought you'd make a corking good actress. (Dr.)
5. "When he told me his name was Herbert I nearly burst out laughing. Fancy calling anyone Herbert. A scream, I call it." (S.M.)
6. I steered him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a wall and gave him a frisk. (O'N.)
7. "I live upstairs." The answer seemed to explain enough to relax him. "You got the same layout?" "Much smaller."
He tapped ash on the floor. "This is a dump. This is unbelievable. But the kid don't know how to live even when she's got the dough." (T. C.)
8. It is. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can believe that. I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a joke of everything and cheer you up. (O'N.)
9. "George," she said, "you're a rotten liar... The part about the peace of Europe is all bosh." (Ch.)
10. She came in one night, plastered, with a sun-burned man, also plastered (J. O'H.)
11. "Your friend got stinko and Fane had to send out for a bouncer." (J. O'H.)
12. "That guy just aint hep," Mazzi said decisively. "He's as unhep as a box, I can't stand people who aint hep." (J.)
II. Specify hackneyed vulgarisms and vulgarisms proper; determine the kind of emotion which had caused their usage.
1. …a hyena crossed the open on his way around the hill. "That bastard crosses there every night," the man said. (H.)
2. Suddenly Percy snatched the letter. "Give it back to me, you rotten devil," Peter shouted. "You know damn well it doesn't say that. I'll kick your big fat belly. I swear I will." (J. Br.)
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3. "Look at the son of a bitch down there: pretending he's one of the boys today." (J.)
4. "How are you, Cartwright? This is the very devil of a business, you know. The very devil of a business." (Ch.)
5. I'm no damned fool! I couldn't go on believing forever that gang was going to change the world by shooting off their loud traps on soapboxes and sneaking around blowing up a lousy building or a bridge! I got wise, it was all a crazy pipe dream! (O'N.)
III. Differentiate professional and social jargomsms; classify them according to the narrow sphere of usage, suggest a terminological equivalent where possible:
1. She came out of her sleep in a nightmare struggle for breath, her eyes distended in horror, the strangling cough tearing her again and again. Bart gave her the needle. (D. C.)
2. I'm here quite often – taking patients to hospitals for majors, and so on. (S. L.)
3. "I didn't know you knew each other," I said. "A long time ago it was," Jean said. "We did History Final together at Coll." (K. A.)
4. They have graduated from Ohio State together, himself with an engineering degree (J.).
5. The arrangement was to keep in touch by runners and by walkie-talkie. (St. H.)
6. Stark bought each one of them the traditional beer a new noncom always buys. (J.)
7. "All the men say I'm a good noncom for I'm fair and I take my job seriously." (N.M.)
8. "We stopped the attack on Paragon White В and С... Personally I think it was a feeler, and they're going to try again to-night." (N. M.)
9. Dave: Karach… That's where I met Libby Dodson… Me and him were going to do everything together when we got back to Civvy Street. I'll work as a chippy on the Colonel's farm. (A. W.)
10. "So you'll both come to dinner? Eight fifteen. Dinny, we must be back to lunch. Swallows!" added Lady Mont round the brim of her hat and passed out through the porch.
"There's a house-party," said Dinny to the young man's elevated eyebrows. "She means tails and a white tie." "Oh! Oh! Best bib and tucker, Jean." (G.)
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11. "I think we've had enough of the metrop for the time being and require a change." (P.G.W.)
12. He learned his English as a waiter in Gib. (H).
13. They can't dun you for bills after seven years, can they? (Ch.)
14. "How long did they cook you!" Dongere's stopped short and looked at him. "How long did they cook you?" – "Since eight this morning. Over twelve hours…" "You didn't unbutton then? After twelve hours of it?" "Me? They got a lot of dancing to do before they'll get anything out of me." (Т. Н.)
IV. Observe the dialectal peculiarities of dialogue in the following examples; pay attention to changes in spelling caused by specific pronunciation.
1. "By the way, Inspector, did you check up that story of Ferguson's?"
"Ferguson?" said the Inspector, in the resentful accents of a schoolboy burdened with too much homework. "Oo, ay, we havena forgot Ferguson. I went tae Sparkes of them remembered him weel enough. The lad doonstairs in the show-room couldna speak with cairtainty tae the time, but he recognized Ferguson from his photograph, as havin' brocht in a magneto on the Monday afternoon. He said Mr.p Saunders wad be the man tae that, and pit a ca' through on the house telephone tae Mr. Sparkes, an' he had the young fellow in. Saunders is one o' they bright lads. He picked the photograph at once oot o' the six I showed him an' timed up the entry o' ithe magneto in the day-book."
"Could he swear to the time Ferguson came in?"
"He wadna charge his memory wi' the precise minute, but he had juist come in fra' his lunch an' found Ferguson waitin' for him. His lunchtime is fra' 1.30 tae 2.30, but he was a bit late that day, an' Ferguson had been waitin' on him a wee while. He thinks it wad be aboot ten minutes tae three."
"That's just about what Ferguson made it."
"Near enough."
"H'm. That sounds all right. Was that all Saunders had, to say?"
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"Ay. Forbye that he said he couldna weel understand whit had happened tae the magneto. He said it looked as though some yin had been daein' it a wilfu' damage." (D.S.)
2. "That's so, my Lord. I remember having tae du much the same thing, mony years since, in an inquest upon a sailing-vessel ran aground in the estuary and got broken up by bumping herself to bits in a gale. The insurance folk thocht that the accident wasna a'togither straightforwards. We tuk it upon oorselz tae demonstrate that wi' the wind and tide setti' as they did, the boat should ha' been well-away fra' the shore if they started at the hour they claimed tae ha' done. We lost the case, but I've never altered my opeenion." (D. S.)
3. "We'll show Levenford what my clever lass can do. I'm looking ahead, and I can see it. When we've made ye the head scholar of Academy, then you'll see what your father means to do wi' you. But ye must stick in to your lessons, stick in hard." (A. C.)
4. I wad na been surpris'd to spy You on an auld wife' flainen toy: Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On's wyliecoat (R. B.)
V. Comment on the structure and function of the standard colloquial words and expressions.
1. "Can we have some money to go to the show this aft. Daddy?" (H.)
2. "We Woosters are, all for that good old medieval hosp. and all that, but when it comes to finding chappies collaring your bed, the thing becomes a trifle too mouldy." (P.G.W.)
3. "Officers' dance last night, Sir," this tech said… "Congrats." (J. H.)
4. Winter garments surpassed even personal gossip as the topic at parties. It was good form to ask, "Put on your heavies yet?" (S. L.)
5. I was feeling about as cheerio as was possible under the circs when a muffled voice hailed rue from the northeast... (P.G.W.)
6. "What did Blake say about the pictures of Godfrey?" "About what I expected. He's pretty sure the man he tailed was Godfrey, but refuses to positively identify him from the pix." (Br. H.)
7. "I was snooping round for news of you, when I connected with this dame. She wasn't at all what I thought she'd be – some swell naughty Society lady that'd scare the life out of me." (Ch.)
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8. I was the biggest draw in London. At the old Aquarium, that was. All the swells came to see me... I was the talk of the town. (S.M.)
9. "Say, what do you two think you're doing? Telling fortunes or making love? Let me warn you that the dog is a frisky bacheldore, Carol. Come on, now, folks, shake a leg. Let's have some stunts or a dance or something." (S.L.)
10. A heart man 'told me I was going to die in six months. (I. Sh.)
11. "Hello, kid! Gee, you look cute, all right." (Dr.)
12. Mr. Marbury captured her with a loud, "Oh, quit fussing now. Come over here and sit down and tell us how's tricks." (S. L.)
VI. Compare the neutral and colloquial (standard or with a limited range of application) modes of expression.
1. "Get on a little faster, put a little more steam on, Ma'am, pray." (D.)
2. "I gave him your story in the magazine. He was quite impressed… But he says you're on the wrong track. Negroes and children: who cares?"
"Not Mr. Berman, I gather. Well, I agree with him. I read that story twice: Brats and niggers." (T. C.)
3. "I do think the Scandinavian are the heartiest and best people – "
"Oh, do you think so?" protested Mrs. Jackson Elder. "My husband says the Svenskas that work in the planing-mill are perfectly terrible" (S. L.)
4. He tried these engineers, but no soap. No answer. (J. O'H.)
5. H: I'd have been elected easy. M: You would, Harry, it was a sure thing. A dead cinch, Harry, everyone knows that. (O'N.)
6. "Big-Hearted Harry. You want to know what I think? I think you're nuts. Pure plain crazy. Goofy as a loon. That's what I think." (J.)
7. There were… with a corner of the bar to themselves what I recognized at once to be a Regular Gang, a Bunch, a Set. (P.)
8. "I met a cousin of yours, Mr. Muskham." – "Jack?" – "Yes." "Last of the dandies. All the difference in the world, Dinny, between the 'buck', the 'dandy', the 'swell', the 'masher', the 'blood', the 'knut', and what's the last variety called – I never know. There's been a steady decrescendo. By his age Jack belongs to the masher' period, but his cut was always pure dandy." (G.)
VII. Compare the literary and colloquial modes of expression.
1. "The scheme I would suggest cannot fail of success, but it has what may seem to you a drawback, sir, in that it requires a certain financial outlay."
"He means," I translated to Corky, "that he has got a pippin of an idea but it's going to cost a bit." (P. G. W.)
2. "Prithee, give me some ham, piping hot, fragrant with the flavour of cloves, brown sugar and tasty sauce. Serve it between fresh slices of nourishing brown and buttered bread. And draw for your faithful servant a cup of aromatic coffee with cream that is rich and pure." The girl gave him a frigid glance and cried to the kitchen. "Pig on rye and Java with." (Ev.)
3. "Obviously an emissary of Mr. Bunyan had obtained clandestine access to her apartment in her absence and purloined the communications in question."
It took Lord Uffenham some moments to work this out, but eventually he unravelled it and was able to translate it from the butlerese. What the man was trying to say that some low blister, bought with Bunyan's gold, had sneaked into the girl's flat and pinched the bally things. (P.G.W.)
4. "Here she is," said Quilp, "there is the woman I ought to have married – there is the beautiful Sarah – there is the female who has all the charms of her sex and none of their weakness. Oh, Sally, Sally." (D.)
5. I need the stimulation of good company. He terms this riff-raff. The plain fact is, I am misunderstood. (D.du M.)
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