The slang is a great, great weakness. I was a teenager at the time and associated with Rockers though I never was one, and much of the slang used is stuff that was around at the time; but it's "painting by numbers", mixed in with slang from their parents' generation and used in situations when it never would be - it was used to confuse and shut out other people. If it was necessary to communicate, everybody used whatever was standard for their families. It was an argot, not a dialect, and they would have been perfectly capable of communicating with others in a close approximation to Standard English if they needed to.
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Date: 2008-06-27 05:48 am (UTC)