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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

See people say this like it's Black vernacular but dont recognize that it's just urban vernacular. Urban vernacular changes frequently because there's more people around. The internet adopts it quickly, and it spreads from there, as the actual initial definition of a memetic concept.

There's a reason society as a whole doesn't co-opt rural Black vernacular, and it's because it isn't actually racially-based.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. I just had this argument with a couple of friends who were raised rich white kids, in the rich white neighborhood. They were criticizing me for appropriating black vernacular, and wouldn't believe me that my entire neighborhood and school spoke that way. It's inter-urban (poor) slang, not specifically black. Most of my neighborhood was Mexican, yet they all used these terms. Granted, they have different inflections on the words, but the vocabulary is pretty much the same. Anyways, now I have friends accusing me of racism for speaking the way I've spoken my entire life. I just hadn't loosened up enough to speak that way around them before. Ain't identity politics grand?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I find it charming in a way. Urban vernacular becoming the lingo of even contemporary rich kids.

Then again, I just said I found something charming, so maybe I'm out of touch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think you'll find it's the children who are wrong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

There's MLE (multicultural London English) in the UK. Must be similar all over.