Polari: A Dying Language?
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“Researchers at the University of Cambridge said that Polari, a code language spoken by the gay community in the U.K. until the 1970s, and used in the title of the 1990 Morrissey album Bona Drag, […]
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I was just reading it. I thought it died a long time ago and that just some of the words or expression survived.
I suppose it depends on how you define something as a distinct language (Wikipedia calls Polari a “cant”, which leads to all sorts of synonyms that I don’t have time to look up), and what qualifies as death for such. I know nothing of linguistics beyond one freshman-year course at uni, hence why I posed the title as a question.