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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 consequences may be disastrous, with readers forced to concentrate more on deciphering the words than considering their meaning, losing the thread of events.
These new immigrants made a living from cotton production and collecting sponges, but after several disastrous harvests and a fierce hurricane, a group of Abaconians left to create a sister community on Key West off the southern tip of Florida.
I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.
In the first place, as impressive as Chrysler's comeback from the debacle of the late 1970s and from the disastrous later years of Lee Iacocca's reign was, the company is hardly the jewel of American manufacturing that last week's press accounts made it out to be.