Argot vs Lunfardo - What's the difference?
argot | lunfardo |
A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
As nouns the difference between argot and lunfardo
is that argot is an inhabitant or resident of argos while lunfardo is lunfardo.argot
English
Noun
(en noun)- The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the uninitiate.
