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Synopsis
A submariner's language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent by still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve some of the language of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. The process of accumating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty stations the sailor undergoes. It is heard, often unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.