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This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).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