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"Omar's coming!"

Not to be a pedant, but one of the best things about The Wire is the language..."Omar comin!" or "knockos" instead of "narcos" (narco cops) or "Hamsterdam," a mishearing of "Amsterdam."

I saw an article that said the UK audience required a Rosetta Stone for the Baltimore street talk, both words and accents.

They didn't.

In general people in the UK can understand most Americans. People in the US are fucking baffled when they hear someone from the UK say "herb" or "water".

I was under the impression that the dense use of language was an intentional artistic choice.

To give a non-"street" example, one character makes a comment about working a "ro-ro" which I happen to know is a "Roll-on, Roll-off car ferry". But I guess the average viewer isn't supposed to know that, just to absorb the authenticity as a background texture.

"Omar walking!"

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