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My only previous exposure to Polari was listening to Kenneth Williams on Round the Horne. I followed most of this, but suspect I mistook in a number of key areas. Anyway, if like me you've wondered how Polari worked, check it out:

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Date: 2015-12-13 11:37 am (UTC)
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Remember Jule and Sand? :o)

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Date: 2015-12-13 07:58 pm (UTC)
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I am amused that my understanding at the word level flickered in and out: I can follow some English dialects delivered rapidly, but there were moments when the one smoking said something musical and my brain refused to make syllables from it. Yay, diversity of communication modes.

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Date: 2015-12-14 08:14 pm (UTC)
lilliburlero: still of peter o'toole in "lord jim", quotation from The Charioteer "in the meantime I've been around" (around)
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Fantabulosa!

Just in case anyone's interested: The Polari Bible. Which it is the Bible. In Polari.

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