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Why does S.E. Hinton use nonstandard English slang street talk in The Outsiders?
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Everybody uses slang for the same basic reasons:
- to have a "secret" language that other people won't understand
- to seem "with it" or "cool"
- because everybody else does it
- because you don't know the correct terminology for something
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoTo have a more authentic voice to the 1960's settings. & besides, that was how Greasers & hoods talked.
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