You can tell the things we care about by the number of slang terms we have for them. Eskimos, a prime example, had tons of words for snow, perhaps even too many words for snow, to the point where it got kinda weird. If you count the amount of slang, you can tell easily pinpoint what our society seems to care about: drinking, drugs, sex, the organs involved in sex, and of course horses (“ponies,” “clipper-cloppers,” “riding cows,” “ol’ big-teeth-two-eyes” –so much horse slang!).
But what about books? Personally, I’m a big book fan, but there seems to be only one term for it: book. I guess you could call it “literature,” but I’m not really sure I support the people who casually call it that. “Ooh, excuse me, I need to read some literature.” “Excuse me, I need to find a new friend.”
Thankfully though, I have put some thought into this, and come up with some book slang for all of us to use, as to emphasize just how much we care about it. Try 'em out! Drop them into everyday conversation—they'll be sure to impress everybody.
BOOK SLANG
The flips
BLT (bacon lettuce text)
Papes
Page-a-day Vitamin
Black-and-white-read-y-look-y
Newspaper’s Father
Movie Scripts Scripts
Those Things Mark Twain Made
Chauncy
Hot and Read-y
Word-home
Ink Ghetto
Boob with a K (this one is racy!)
Page Sandwich
BLT (bacon literature tomato)
BLT (book lettuce tomato)
Bible’s Cousin
The Cut Up Scroll
Papyrus’ Baby
Koob
BLT (bacon lettuce tomato)
Poor Man’s Booster Seat
Thing-to-throw-at-intruders
Dyslexia’s Jigsaw Puzzle
The Ol’ Open-and-look-at-from-left-to-right-and-think-about-in-your-brain
Typewriter’s Coloring Book
Poster Flattener
Imagination Doorway (this is easily the lamest sounding one, don’t actually use this)
The Eye’s Greed (or “gread,” if you want to sacrifice spelling for puns)
Bread (mispronounced) (wait, that sounds like “breed”, which isn’t the same … eh, you get it)
Lady-Impresser
Bathroom’s TV
Add some more! Let's get this to be a thing.
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