{"id":3968,"date":"2020-10-05T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:57:31","slug":"in-the-parlance-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3968","title":{"rendered":"in the parlance of our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I recently commented to a friend via email, I&#8217;m realizing that I enjoy, indeed revel in, a broad interpretation of &#8216;folkloric&#8217; which takes in &#8220;the parlance of our time&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJ726Wyc3Qw&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;t=698\">Lebowski reference<\/a>) in all its guises.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong the tools at my fingertips: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Viz-40th-Anniversary-Profanisaurus-Piss\/dp\/1781066779\/\"><b>Roger&#8217;s Profanisaurus Rex<\/b><\/a> (&#8220;the King of swearing dictionaries&#8221;) (see <a href=\"http:\/\/listserv.linguistlist.org\/pipermail\/worldwidewords\/2005-November\/000356.html\">5. Book Review<\/a> if you dare: &#8220;&#8230;an indispensable work of reference for students of contemporary linguistics, socio-cultural commentators and dockers who have just hit their thumb with a hammer.&#8221;)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/greensdictofslang.com\/\"><b>Green&#8217;s Dictionary of Slang<\/b><\/a> in its digital edition (&#8220;Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue. &#8216;Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been [\u2026] or is ever likely to be&#8217;\u200b.&#8221;)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Expletive-Deleted-PODA-Good-Language\/dp\/0743275268\/\"><b>Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/F-Word-Jesse-Sheidlower\/dp\/0195393112\/\"><b>The F Word<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barrelhouse-Words-Blues-Dialect-Dictionary\/dp\/0252076605\/\"><b>Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dents-Modern-Tribes-Languages-Britain\/dp\/1473623871\/\"><b>Dent&#8217;s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speaking-American-Youse-Visual-Guide\/dp\/0358359937\/\"><b>Speaking American: How Y\u2019all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide<\/b><\/a><\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and others re: various dialects of English.<\/p>\n<p>(for more on parlance, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2015\/04\/in-the-parlance-of-our-time.html\">In the parlance of our time<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lebowski\/comments\/3x7mmr\/repetition_in_the_big_lebowski\/\">Repetition in <b>The Big Lebowski<\/b><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I recently commented to a friend via email, I&#8217;m realizing that I enjoy, indeed revel in, a broad interpretation of &#8216;folkloric&#8217; which takes in &#8220;the parlance of our time&#8221; (Lebowski reference) in all its guises. Among the tools at my fingertips: Roger&#8217;s Profanisaurus Rex (&#8220;the King of swearing dictionaries&#8221;) (see 5. Book Review if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-lexicon","category-vernacular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}