My life changed forever when I found out the word slang…

I ain't no clown town snitch baby.

— Ramandeep Singh

“The default digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy, emoji-based validation, dopamine-rich feedback loops, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty. They assume…

— Sov8840

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly…

— China Mieville

“Are you okay? Did that dickwad do or say something out of pocket to you?” Her eyes slid open. “Dickwad?” she murmured. “Have you…

— Jamie Wesley

“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for…

— Tom Robbins

“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words.…

— Peter O'Donnell

Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as…

— Susie Dent

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in…

— Anonymous

I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but…

— Stella Maxwell

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere…

— Joseph Furphy

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

— Anthony Burgess

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that…

— David Crystal

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

— William Allen White

I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan,…

— Franklyn Ajaye

I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings.…

— Elizabeth Fraser