What is required for galeej is best expressed by this highly original wikipedia wiki featured above in a screen shot. The actual site can be visited here.
As the title suggests, it is a wiki of jargon of any kind, with a special focus on hacker lingo, culture and history. As such, without such codification, most hacker lingo is likely to be written of as examples of idiosyncratic use, however, the moment it is codified in such a way, it takes on a whole new meaning, as the special lingo of a particular in group.
In that sense, the way one's lexicon evolves is also affected by such an event. We are likely to disregard words if we consider them idiosyncratic. However, actual codification makes it that much more acceptable and usable, and hence, its entry into our mental lexicon is more easily facilitated.
In that sense, what is jargon? Is it more than just an ingroup register or speech variety, but in fact a site where new words are formed, just as a pidgin is a site where new grammars and unique syntaxes are created? such questions are quite beyond the scope of this blog, but I strongly hold the view that, crudely put, states that jargon: lexis :: pidgin: syntax, and would love to look into this further.
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