Example sentences for: anti-language

How can you use “anti-language” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Anti-language is divergence on a grand scale, and most varieties of slang are at least sympathetic to the philosophy and purposes of anti-language.

  • Once too many people have cracked the code — most important, when those who have done so are in some way opposed to the anti-language's users — the language becomes obsolete and dies.

  • Cleaner is a word which adheres to the second principle of an anti-language: the word employed in the process of relexicalzation should not itself be conspicuous.

  • This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).

  • An inmate is downgraded to sucker by breaking the rules, one of which is never, ever, to reveal the secrets of the anti-language, no matter what pardon or privilege is offered.


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