Sunday 22 August 2010

slang

Can you believe it? There is a THESIS on slangs used in IITM.

2 comments:

Sivaramakrishnan said...

Hehe... :D
And believe it or not, it shows another property of a language -- evolution. The thesis is 4 years old... which is the average lifetime of a person in the institute. And I can attest the fact that the lingo has evolved significantly since then... possibly a representation of how a language would evolve over 60-70 years.

L said...

Yes! slangs evolve faster than formal language and perhaps we can see if your ratio of 4:60 is true and write another thesis.

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