What does the cryptic crossword clue "Informal speech starts to seem lazy and nark grammarians (5)" mean?

The definition is "Informal speech". The wordplay uses a charade (building blocks). S (abbreviation="seem") + LA (deletion="lazy") + N (first_letter="nark") + G (first_letter="grammarians") = SLANG; definition: "Informal speech" The answer is SLANG.

Informal speech starts to seem lazy and nark grammarians (5)

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