Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — Slang In Business. [ARTICLE]

Slang In Business.

Illustrations of the disadvantage of cultivating local vernacular and slang in one’s language are sometimes brought sharply home to business men, as was the case In a letter received the other day by a New York firm from one of their correspondents in the far east, which read in part as follows: “Will you kindly send us a modern dictionary of American language, as We are unable to understand some of the phrases in your letters? Writing on the —th ultimo, you say, for instance: ‘Do riot let Messrs. hand you a lemon in this deal. If they try It on pitch one Cor fair right over the plate to Mr. , and if he foozles cable for a solar plexus.’ The terms used are foreign to us, and we entirely fait to comprehend their significance.”—Shipping Illustrated.