Jonathan Meades On Jargon (BBC Four) begins with a splendid and heartening defence of slang. It is creative: “Slang is about showing off, about increasing one’s idiolect, about finding a better expression for blowjob than blowjob. It’s about flexing one’s lingo-muscle,” he says, flexing his; also possibly – cunningly – finding a better expression for blowjob than blowjob. Sometime you need to hit the pause button to properly appreciate a Meades missile, for it to sink in. A rotting fish head is covered in flies, because jargon, too, begins at the top and putrefies downward.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 22:30 UTC