[tlhIngan Hol] Can't slang words be old words ?

[SuStel]

On 11/9/2016 8:14 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>
> The klingon term for slang is {mu'mey ghoQ}, which translates to 
> "fresh words".
>
> But this confuses me. Can't a language (klingon in our case), possess 
> slang words which are pretty old ?
>
> A generation of teenagers grows up and stops using slang. But then the 
> next generation comes, adopts these words until the next generation 
> comes and so on..
>
> So, why is it necessary for a slang word to be "fresh" ?
>

We don't know. It could be a fossilized expression. The origin of the 
English word /slang/ itself appears to be uncertain: one theory says it 
originally meant "special vocabulary of tramps and thieves." It no 
longer means that, and yet we still use the word.

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SuStel
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