Friday, April 27th, 2007...8:02 am
argot \AHR-go; -gut\
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noun:
1. A specialized and often secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
2. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds.
My child has an argot, but she claims all her made-up words are “Spanish,” such as “‘klingka’ is Spanish for chair.”
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April 27th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Has your kid been talking to my kid?
April 28th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Ha! This must be some stage of language development?? For odd kids?? Or is this what happens with a little information (one Spanish class)? Well, they ARE creative….
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