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Toit, Brian M. Du. 1981. Linguistic subterfuge: Its use by drug users in South Africa. Anthropological Linguistics 22 (1) : 22–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
borrowing | drug culture | onomatopoeia | pseudonym

Annotation

Drug users are said to employ pseudonyms, a wealth of onomatopoetic forms, and liberal borrowing from foreign languages.