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Polari is dying?

posted by davidt on Sunday December 12 2010, @11:00AM
B.C. in Chicago writes:
I found it on Towerload. Sad news!

Gay Code Language Going Extinct - Global Cocktails

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Gay Code Language Faces Extinction - Advocate.com
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  • fail to see why americns would find this interesting, most brits couldn't give two shiys!
    Anonymous -- Sunday December 12 2010, @12:02PM (#360098)
  • this is no big deal, after all it "...was just silly slang...". :)

    Don R.
    Okc.
    Anonymous -- Sunday December 12 2010, @04:56PM (#360121)
  • As long as Grant Morrison's DOOM PATROL is in print, palare will never die.
    Geoffrey D. Wessel -- Sunday December 12 2010, @07:44PM (#360125)
    (User #22859 Info | http://twitter.com/gdwessel)

  • Polari (Score:2, Interesting)

    As i am in 52 i and all my friends (now mostly dead HIV)used polari and it is of interest in social History some words like naf have become mainstream where as bats (shoes)and
    Varda (look) are not known by young gay men and they do not need it but it tells us and is maybe a nod to a wild youth ! but nante camp to all the bona hommie palones ! we dont need it but do not forget this is a hard won freedom and reflects a time when to be gay was a crime and you had to keep you identity hidden
    COLLNUIN -- Wednesday December 15 2010, @07:32AM (#360233)
    (User #18040 Info)
    if you can not help dont hinder !
    • Re:Polari by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday December 15 2010, @10:43AM
      • Re:Polari by COLLNUIN (Score:1) Thursday December 16 2010, @06:58AM
        • Re:Polari by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 16 2010, @07:17AM
          • Re:Polari by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday December 20 2010, @02:11AM
  • bona to vada u all, if I could...
    LADYDEAN -- Monday December 20 2010, @11:27AM (#360394)
    (User #23677 Info)
  • Wikipedia says: Polari is a mixture of Romance (Italian or Mediterranean Lingua Franca), London slang, backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves' cant. Later it expanded to contain words from the Yiddish language, from the US forces (present in the UK during World War II) and from 1960s drug users. It was a constantly developing form of language, with a small core lexicon of about 20 words (including bona, ajax, eek, cod, naff, lattie, nanti, omi, palone, riah, zhoosh (tjuz), TBH, trade, vada), and over 500 other lesser-known words.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday December 22 2010, @12:04PM (#360462)
  • The influence of palare on the English language is undeniable and determinate. For this I am grateful; like so much of language, it contains the strife, struggle and hum-drum of people to whom I am proud to say comprise a unique chapter in gay history and culture. All those people, all those lives, where are they now? Right under your nose and you just can't see it, can you?
    Thank you, Morrissey, for passing a torch...

    URL:http://www.photopolari.com [photopolari.com]
    javier31 -- Friday January 07 2011, @01:06AM (#360722)
    (User #13647 Info | http://www.photopolari.com/)

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