Elliptical poems shift drastically between low (or slangy) and high (or naively "poetic") diction. Elliptical poems shift drastically between low (or slangy) and high (or naively 'poetic') diction. Violence bursts in every sequence, and the conversation is slangy and corrupt. Hall, however, does recognize Kelton for doing "remarkably well as the slangy Minnie". I sing' with a slangy 'baby' was going a bit too far. Outside Berlin, "Kiez" may be considered by some as somewhat slangy.