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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (420627)	4/7/2011 10:20:11 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793964

Sad the Irish language was replaced by English slang and pikey talk. youtube.com Almost bought this the other day in Las Vegas. rosettastone.com "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." Gilbert K. Chesterton "I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell." J. B. Priestley "I write in American slang." Norman Spinrad "In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang." Ike Turner "It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today." Henry David Thoreau "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." Carl Sandburg "The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun." Dennis Farina "The downtrodden are the great creators of slang." Anthony Burgess "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect." Carl Sandburg brainyquote.com