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Large numbers of young men from El Paso, speaking the pachuco argot, settled in Los Angeles during the early 1940s, and it was there that they became recognized as an identifiable group, and considered to be gang members.
And every gang wants its own argot, a test by which a potential recruit can be measured: if you don't know the language, very often you cannot get in; or, if you are already in, not knowing the latest key words can be disastrous for your credibility.
The pachuco argot utilized several linguistic sources in developing a vocabulary or jargon.
The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).
Convicts shipped to Australia spoke a criminal argot described by James Hardy Vaux as flash language in his New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language of 1812.