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Street Slang For Scriptwriting

By Sharon

If you’re writing a script, one way that you can bring it to life is to let your characters speak in current street slang. That’s the advice from the creators of Raindance, which promotes independent film in the UK. They have suggested a number of current slang phrases to give your characters some street cred. Here are some that caught my eye:

• Seagull manager

  A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

• SITCOMs

  Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a ‘home business’.

• 404

  Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message ‘404 Not Found’ meaning that the requested document could not be located.

There are lots more fun phrases to see. A full list is here.

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Full post as published by Daily Writing Tips on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).