Urban Linguist Gifts

"No, Todd — I’m not ‘fronting,’ I'm pregnant!"

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

WTF?

Actually, Mama was her third word. Buy Now were her first two.

"I'll have to get someone younger to look at your résumé. I'm not fluent in emoji."

'It says here you can talk trash in five languages.'

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

God sends a text message: 'OMME!'

"I can never remember, does 'barge' have one snake-head jackal, or two?"

Street: The Magazine for Homeless People

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

"It's just a dinner table conversation. Must you refer to it as 'Talking Off-line'."

'Hello! I don't believe I've bored you yet...'

Rashomon of West 84th Street

"'I sent this to you through the mail to say I hope your day is swell.' What's wrong with that?"

'Do you not have a dictionary?'

'Remember when we referred to a good thing as being 'swell' instead of 'cool'?'

'I don't trust that guy.'

Department of Linguistics.

"Nobody understands my texts."

Kink

'It's not a prescription. It's a letter from my son in med school that I'm hoping you can decipher.'

Make Room

Mugger mugging fast food.

Every time she bent over Ben would check out Kate's diphthong.

The New Elite. . .

"Maybe we should start thinking outside the box..."

"Damned urban sprawl."

"The most our country can give you at this time is perhaps a few more vowels."

Kwick Loans Street Vendor

Blind man says hello in braille.

"3:07 AM fellow earthling!"

Community notice board.

'I'd invite you in but my box is a mess.'

Couple flirting in Text Language.