THE ENGLISH SLANG TERMINOLOGY RELATED TO BIRDS AND INSECTS
THE ENGLISH SLANG TERMINOLOGY RELATED TO BIRDS AND INSECTS

Summary/Abstract: Our article aims at focusing on words or phrases belonging to the slang linguistic compartment, which is a section less approached by linguists, precisely because of its moral character, since the slang expressions designate some intriguing aspects of language that might seem filthy or vulgar. The English language has a vocabulary at least as plentiful as the Romanian language, therefore, if the long list of the English synonyms for a certain slang word were translated through one and the same filthy expression, the Romanian reader would be deprived of the contact with the lexical abundance and figurative imaginativeness of the Romanian language. The slang expressions related to birds and insects are numberless, as for almost each and every bird or insect we can find a figurative connotation that gives rise to a slang phrase.

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