{"id":31493,"date":"2012-05-14T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=31493"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:58:40","slug":"slang-and-secrets-happy-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/slang-and-secrets-happy-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Slang and Secrets: Happy Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kelleyhome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kelleyhome-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kelleyhome\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kelleyhome-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kelleyhome.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualnews.com\/data-design\/april\/top10books_jaredfanning\/\">most-read books in the world<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/byliner.com\/caleb-crain\/stories\/pixies-sheilas-dirtbags-and-cougar-bait-modern-slang\">Caleb Crain<\/a>: \u201cLike poetry and pornography, slang is easier to recognize than to define. Most of it is disapproved of by someone, but obscenity alone doesn\u2019t qualify. It isn&#8217;t slang, for example, to refer to manure with a four-letter word. 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