I’ve learned it’s still actively used in AAVE today to mean sex! I had only heard it used in a contemporary sense to mean “mess with” or “hang out with” or “like” but not “to have sex with.” Anyway, that’s on me, my ignorance, and I’m sorry about that.https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/1273751009127358465 …
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or indigenous languages. Such as OK
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I think that one's pretty disputed, right? The most common etymology is that it's an initialism
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American English is such a conglomeration pidgin. I think our big island got way out of hand compared to British English. It's always cool to find out the etymology of the vernacular I use daily. Never boring.
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I still use fo-shizzle on a semi-regular basis as an informal confirmation. Thanks Snoop Dogg.
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I had never heard of AAVE until just now. Googled it. Now, I think I'm about to get lost down an internet rabbit hole.
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So much of our language is AAVE! Woke, bougie, glow up, spilling tea, etc. Dialect fusion is normal, but the attitude AAVE is "unprofessional" or "unintelligent" is just outright racism when white people appropriate it, and suddenly the words are fine.
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This might be the first time I've seen a non-linguist use the term AAVE and it makes me extremely happy
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In many cases not just AAVE, but also much of US slang originates in Queer Black culture, or in larger QPOC culture. Check out the documentary, Paris is Burning, to see origin of slang terms from the New York Ballroom scene of the late ‘80s-early-‘90s . Shady, Yasss, voguing, etc
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We love to steal things from Black culture
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