Alice Becker-Ho is a situationist poet, translator and editor (of her late husband Guy Debord's letters) who has written extensively on the etymology and history of European slang. Now, in The Essence of Jargon, she examines Romani argot as a form of self-defence from the State, a code for people who survived outside the law.
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