and All the Many-Splendored Things in Between in Teenspeak - Jockspeak - Menglish - Slanglish - Spanglish
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Populo-Vulgar Speech - T-Shirt & Net Shorthand
Pompo-Verbosity & other Figurative Lingos
One of many terms proposed proposed in the 1960s as a substitute for homosexuality because of the pejorative or negative connotations attached to that word. Homoism, like homosexuality , is etymologically ambiguous since homo means same as in Greek or man in Latin thus excluding women. It never caught on . See Also: homoism