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Accordingly, I tried it out on a few pages taken at random from Raymond Queneau's highly argotique (and immensely entertaining) Zazie dans le métro, a severe test which it passed very successfully as far as including the slang words is concerned.

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  1. language that is spoken or written
  2. words making up the dialogue of a play
  3. the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
  4. the words that are spoken
  5. an angry dispute

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  • The Progressive platform did contain words, and the words were admirably designed to express thought and meaning and purpose. —  An Autobiography
  • Accordingly, I tried it out on a few pages taken at random from Raymond Queneau's highly argotique (and immensely entertaining) Zazie dans le métro, a severe test which it passed very successfully as far as including the slang words is concerned. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • When you come on to British pronunciation of Latin words, the controversy is complicated because sectarian prejudice is added to the brew of class snobbery and linguistic purism. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
  • Mock looked at Alvin like his words was the first Mock even noticed somebody was there on the road, even though he'd just been passed by the horses, snorting and stamping through the snow. —  Prentice Alvin
 

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