I study both languages and sociology. I totally dig that slang is exceedingly both regional as well as subcultural. However some gains traction as common parlance.
To what extent, please, are any common slangs widespread throughout Faerûn / are any common slangs widespread throughout FaerûnVs unique to Cormyr/Sword Coast/etc?
Got any favourites you’d care to share?
For laughs … any jive- or beatnik-like (as in a vocabulary comprised nearly entirely of slang) groups in the Realms?— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) February 24, 2019
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…word and term meanings, and thieves have to come up with something else), and constantly leaks into the wider populace of fences, buyers and sellers and neighbours who come into regular contact with thieves.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
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So slang is always alive, well, and widespread. Gnomes and halflings dwelling in human cities are constantly developing their own slang converse to “talk in front of humans without humans knowing all that’s said”…#Realmslore 4)
…and I’ve given word and phrase examples in many places down the years. But by its very nature, this is best left to individual DMs rather than widely spread on Twitter or elsewhere so players will be “in the know.”#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019