In both Roadville and Trackton, storytelling, not printed text, was the coin of the realm: children grew up hearing stories, not reading them. In both working class communities, language was specifically aimed at members of the community and was laden with buzzwords, local abbreviations, and references understood only by them. In both communities the meanings of speech could be hard for outsiders to understand, but, again, the shared ways within them created intimacy and a powerful sense of “us.”
