usage, vocabulary (in this context, e.g., formal versus informal) and as it pertains to influences and vocabulary, speech patterns drawn upon, employed

Walt Whitman, ‘Slang in America’ – North American Review, November 1885

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Walt Whitman, ‘Slang in America”

North American Review

November 1885

“Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction of the learned, of of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity. ….”

— posted by Roger W. Smith

August 2022

Roger's rhetoric

Roger W. Smith's observations about the craft of writing and principles of rhetoric, derived from his professional experience and his study, reading, and training.

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Walt Whitman, ‘Slang in America”