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The outsiders slang a'la Shmoop.... so what

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is going on with addiction that the author uses in

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this book Yeah the language in this book can sound pretty

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strange if you're not used to it That's because s

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e hinton is using vernacular that's a term for you

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colloquial language that is from a given place or time

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period so it doesn't sound highly educated or prim and [Boy graduating]

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proper But that makes sense because pony boy and his

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friends are not kings and queens in the seventeenth century

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they are kids in the twentieth century in oklahoma and

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could you maybe give us some examples of the kind

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of language that she uses Yeah eso their terms for

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all the things that happened to them Lots of funny [Gang appear in street]

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examples lots of funny words pony boy and his friends

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The researchers refer to a fight as a rumble People

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from other gangs referred to it as bop-action and

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that sounds pretty silly to me pretty silly to pony

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boy but when you think about it it's all made

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up Yeah so some of some of their slang terms

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our terms that you might have heard before if you've

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watched old movies Okay so they refer to jail as [Old movie playing]

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the cooler The cops are the buzz If someone who's

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drunk they're soused or pickled and a lot of the

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words you'll never heard before like calling a fight bob

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action right yeah there are lots of lots of silly

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words here basically For them slaying is the equivalent of [Woman discussing slang]

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emojis Now it's a shortwave shows someone what you mean

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andi even if it doesn't make sense to us the

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emojis that i use wouldn't make sense to them either....Describe [Questions appear]

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the author's diction in the outsiders What are some specific

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