American slang / jargon book: ‘Talk the Talk’

This book looks like fun and is hot off the press (if books take over a week to cool down):

Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures
By Luc Reid
ISBN 1-58297-423-3

Publisher Writers Digest Books (wdeditors.com/wordpress/fall-2006-titles/talk-the-talk/) [EDIT (5/17/10): dead link] says:

Organized by subculture, each section introduces the group and its key characteristics, then provides the key phrases and their specific meanings. Perfect for novelists, screenwriters, students, or anyone interested in pop culture, Talk the Talk is a fun and informative insider’s peek at culture and diversity in America.

There’s a Web site for the book (http://www.subculturetalk.com/) with forums and links about the various groups. There’s also a promise of free stuff that didn’t fit in the book, such as “About 7,000 drug synonyms.”

I hope the use of the term subculture doesn’t hurt sales. The prefix sub- means both negative “inferior” (substandard) and neutral “smaller part of the whole” (subcategory). Subculture is the latter. It shouldn’t have any negative connotations, but some people do see it that way. What if we shifted from Latin prefixes to Greek and called them “hypocultures”? Of course, that might be germs you extract with a hypodermic (“below the skin”) needle.