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From: mkw0@bunny.UUCP (Maurice Wong)
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Subject: Re: Want Info. on Jive Talk
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 11:50:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 11:50:52 1985
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> 
>     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)