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Development of slang. Slang emanates from conflicts in values, sometimes superficial, often fundamental.
When an individual applies language in a new way to express hostility, ridicule, or contempt, often with sharp wit, he may be creating slang, but the new expression will perish unless it is picked up by others. If the speaker is a member of a group that finds that his creation projects the emotional reaction of its members toward an idea, person, or social institution, the expression will gain currency according to the unanimity of attitude within the group. A new slang term is usually widely used in a subculture before it appears in the dominant culture. Thus slang e.g sucker, honkey, shave-tail, jerk expresses the attitudes, not always derogatory, of one group or class toward the values of another.
Slang sometimes stems from within the group, satirizing or burlesquing its own values, behaviour, and attitudes e.g shotgun wedding, cake eater, greasy spoon. Slang, then, is produced largely by social forces rather than by an individual speaker or writer who, single-handed like Horace Walpole, who coined serendipity more than 200 years ago, creates and establishes a word in the language.
This is one reason why it is difficult to determine the origin of slang terms. 4.
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