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Updated: May 20, 2025
I know the argot of the quartz-mining and milling industry familiarly; and so whenever Bret Harte introduces that industry into a story, the first time one of his miners opens his mouth I recognize from his phrasing that Harte got the phrasing by listening like Shakespeare I mean the Stratford one not by experience.
He said something was the limit, and that we might search him." Betty approached the bedside to look at him, and meeting the disturbed inquiry in his uplifted eyes, laughed, because, seeing that he was not delirious, she thought she understood. She had not lived in New York without hearing its argot, and she realised that the exclamation which had appeared delirium to Mrs.
He had told her of his envy of the sea people and she had understood it; and, in return, she had told him of an American boy whom she had known long ago, and who, fired by a book about life on the bay of Naples which he had read in San Francisco, had got hold of a little money, taken ship to Naples, gone straight to the point at Posilpipo, and stayed there among the fishermen for nearly two years, living their life, eating their food, learning to speak their argot, becoming at length as one of them.
One can stand in the middle of it and with his westerly ear catch the argot of Gotham and with his easterly all the dialects of Damascus. And if through some unexpected convulsion of Nature 51 Broadway should topple over, Mr.
Well, after I had cleared a space at the supper table, and had, with permission, lighted my pipe, I began to talk... Oh yes, I did give them a chance occasionally; don't interrupt.... I gossiped about England, France, the universe. From the brief comments they made I saw they knew all about it, and understood my social argot, all but a few words is there anything peculiar about any of my words?
"'That's all rigmarole that somebody hands you when you've won the Wooden Cross and a little garden growing over your tummy, is the way they put it in their argot. 'The Marseillaise, the Chant du Depart are all right for the youngsters, and the reviews and let me tell you, the reviews take a lot of furbishing and make a lot of dust. That's all they really amount to.
The argot is Dutch and Kaffir, and every one can hum the national anthem that begins 'Pack your kit and trek, Johnny Bowlegs. In the stately Hongkong Clubhouse, which is to the further what the Bengal Club is to the nearer East, you meet much the same gathering, minus the mining speculators and plus men whose talk is of tea, silk, shortings, and Shanghai ponies.
He promised to get a copy of it for me; and here it is an exact copy, with all the imperfections of the original preserved. It has many slang expressions in it thieves' argot but their meaning has been interlined, in parentheses, by the prison authorities' St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Mr.
"Looks as if it would hold," he said in thieves' argot as he turned around. "Are ye a gaby?" The red-headed giant stared ominously at him. "On the contrary," coolly, "I know very well what I am doing." A question interlarded with oaths burst from the other's throat; John Steele regarded the man quietly. "I should think it apparent what I want!" he answered. As he spoke, he sat down.
In Argot the train is le roulant Vif, the Rattler. The name given to the head while still on the shoulders la Sorbonne shows the antiquity of this dialect which is mentioned by very early romance-writers, as Cervantes, the Italian story-tellers, and Aretino.
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