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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 148788" data-attributes="member: 68">After watching the interview [USER=23]@Mel O&#039;Drama[/USER] posted above and then a couple of others, last night I was listening to the Julian and Sandy sketches from Round The Horne. I was in stitches at them. Despite the fact they were recorded in the 1960s and at a time when a lot of people probably didn&#039;t really get it, or fully understand it. They are very brave, it just must have went over peoples heads and sounded just like a lot of silly nonsense. It&#039;s funny too that with all the time that&#039;s past and me belonging to a totally different and freer generation that this reminded me so much of how it is when a group of gay men get together. Polari may be practically dead now, and the reason for it&#039;s use is not really necessary but I think that elements of it carry on in different ways. Among certain subgroups language can be twisted and changed and come to mean other things. I know with my close friends this happens. Certainly with gay men, wonderful things are done with manipulation or distortion of language. A lot of what&#039;s being said in those sketches is still being done today, in a way. I don&#039;t know why but gay men seem to really get a kick out of playing with words and language in that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 148788, member: 68"] After watching the interview [USER=23]@Mel O'Drama[/USER] posted above and then a couple of others, last night I was listening to the Julian and Sandy sketches from Round The Horne. I was in stitches at them. Despite the fact they were recorded in the 1960s and at a time when a lot of people probably didn't really get it, or fully understand it. They are very brave, it just must have went over peoples heads and sounded just like a lot of silly nonsense. It's funny too that with all the time that's past and me belonging to a totally different and freer generation that this reminded me so much of how it is when a group of gay men get together. Polari may be practically dead now, and the reason for it's use is not really necessary but I think that elements of it carry on in different ways. Among certain subgroups language can be twisted and changed and come to mean other things. I know with my close friends this happens. Certainly with gay men, wonderful things are done with manipulation or distortion of language. A lot of what's being said in those sketches is still being done today, in a way. I don't know why but gay men seem to really get a kick out of playing with words and language in that way. [/QUOTE]

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