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What Makes a Slang Word Useful?

Measuring the value of new words and phrases

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Ben Ulansey
Aug 12, 2024
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Living outside of the Philadelphia area for most of my life, I’ve seen my fair share of slang words enter and leave the fray. Some of them are amusing, some of them are useful, and some are outright pointless and forgettable. But it never really occured to me that there might actually be ways of tru…

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