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Slang. Overview | What role does slang play in our language?
How does slang both shape and reflect culture? In this lesson, students consider the slang words they use daily and the role slang plays in our culture. Then, they explore the etymologies of these and other slang words and display their findings in a visually interesting way, as well as compile a class dictionary. Letters. Jargon. The roots of nauticalese go back many hundreds of years and involve many languages.
While the seaman’s jargon sets him apart on the one hand, he eventually must come ashore and interact with those ignorant landlubbers. Like all cultures that interact over time, some language assimilation takes place among the dialects allowing previously “foreign, sea jargon” to creep silently into daily parlance of the mainstream. Over time the word origins are lost to all but the linguists and members of the in-group. Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension. Blind Words.