As it is #PrideMonth, I thought it would be interesting to identify some aphorisms that have actually been appropriated from minority groups into common parlance. I'll start:
"(Keep it) on the down-low / DL":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_(sexual_slang) …
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I was thinking of Polari but most of it remains somewhat out of common parlance (and, as I understand it, is actually a dying slang)
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Is it cheating to link to all of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics …
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