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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/9/2016 8:14 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<p dir="ltr">The klingon term for slang is {mu'mey ghoQ}, which
translates to "fresh words".</p>
<p dir="ltr">But this confuses me. Can't a language (klingon in
our case), possess slang words which are pretty old ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">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..</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, why is it necessary for a slang word to be
"fresh" ?</p>
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<p>We don't know. It could be a fossilized expression. The origin of
the English word <i>slang</i> 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.<br>
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