![]() She speaks in a heavy southern accent, but one time, after telling a story, she says, “it was wicked cool!” Her new friend says, “did you just say ‘wicked’? Funny, I’ve only heard that lingo in New England…” Here, the author uses New England lingo as a hint that perhaps the woman isn’t who she says she is. She’s just arrived in New York, and she’s told everyone that this is the first time she’s ever left Texas. The main character is an American woman that is hiding her identity in a new city. In truth, the term lingo is relatively vague-it can mean any type of nonstandard language, and varies between professions, age groups, sexes, nationalities, ethnicities, location, and so on. Stemming from the Latin word lingua, meaning “tongue,” lingo refers first and foremost to speech, but it naturally carries over into literature like any spoken language does. For instance, an elderly man hears some teenage boys talking about their “kicks” while showing each other their new shoes, and he might say, “I can’t understand the lingo of young kids today!” Sometimes people use the word lingo to refer to a foreign language, or, when they mean that certain language is foreign to them-it is known to one group and unknown to people outside of it. Lingo is language or vocabulary that is specific to a certain subject, group of people, or region including slang and jargon. ![]()
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