[net.nlang] Want Info. on Jive Talk

dan@prism.UUCP (05/17/85)

    Do you, or does anyone you know, talk "jive?"  I'm interested in
finding out about the lingo and compiling a collection of "jive talk"
words and phrases and their translations.  (For those who don't know,
jive is a slang spoken by some American Blacks; e.g. "honkey" =
"white person.")

    I'd appreciate anything that anyone can contribute on the subject,
including corrections to anything that was wrong in the first paragraph
above.  Please feel free to send me mail, write me a letter, call me up,
or reply here in net.nlang.

    Thanks a lot.

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  Dan Solis             {mit-eddie, ihnp4!inmet, wjh12, cca} !mirror!dan
  Mirror Systems, Inc.
  2067 Massachusetts Ave.
  Cambridge, MA 02140
  (617) 661-7256

mkw0@bunny.UUCP (Maurice Wong) (05/22/85)

> 
>     Do you, or does anyone you know, talk "jive?"  I'm interested in
> finding out about the lingo and compiling a collection of "jive talk"
> words and phrases and their translations.  (For those who don't know,
> jive is a slang spoken by some American Blacks; e.g. "honkey" =
> "white person.")
> 
>     I'd appreciate anything that anyone can contribute on the subject,
> including corrections to anything that was wrong in the first paragraph
> above.  Please feel free to send me mail, write me a letter, call me up,
> or reply here in net.nlang.
> 
>     Thanks a lot.
> 
> ---------------------
>   Dan Solis             {mit-eddie, ihnp4!inmet, wjh12, cca} !mirror!dan
>   Mirror Systems, Inc.
>   2067 Massachusetts Ave.
>   Cambridge, MA 02140
>   (617) 661-7256

You might want to look at the following book:

Baugh, John.  Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival.
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983)

It was reviewed in Language 61(2): 204-206, 1985.

  Maurice Wong
  (wong%gte-labs.csnet@csnet-relay)