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keiferski
on March 10, 2021
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We created a fake language to root out resume liar...
Reading this made me think: if someone from 1900 were to see this paragraph, it would made absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's interesting how new slang and technology words develop so quickly.
JasonFruit
on March 10, 2021
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It works in reverse, too: slangy school-newspaper style writing from back then is almost incomprehensible now.
Cthulhu_
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My dizzy age afternoonified chuckaboo looks arf’arf’an’arf, I bet they want to bricky batty-fang that bag o' mystery, could be bow wow mutton.
IDK I just googled 1900's slang.
scollet
on March 10, 2021
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Do you want fries with that?
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