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Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it's no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins. Susie Dent

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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open. Yolandi Visser

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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom. Queen Latifah

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Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level. No I.D.

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Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on. E-40

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