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3 panel meme. First panel: “I made a new internet slang”. Second panel: “New or misused AAVE?” Third panel: “Misused AAVE”. :::

the other 20% is either 4chan incel language or something trump tweeted in 2017

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Is it racist in the context of “i dont jive with that”? Never thought of the etynomics of the word

    • [deleted] in lemmy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I don’t think that or ‘jive turkey’ are likely to get any pushback like using it to describe black people talking would. Context matters.

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        8 months ago

        Appreciate it. I have never heard of that word in any context other than what i mentioned, so it must not be oart of the local lexicon or it was before my time.