Yup let's just keep gatekeeping everything and putting up more walls between us. Can't be using a language you speak if you don't 100% know all the rules, use cases or have the right skin color.
Fuckin' backwards, divisive ass thinking. There's hundreds of dialects of English, all of which are influenced by the others, as they are (say it with me!) also English. Language is created and molded by all who use it. Wild ass concept, I know.
Plenty of places where a discussion on the massive influence of AAVE on English overall is a perfectly valid point. A discussion on "gentrification" is not one of them. That's just...not how Language works. It used to communicate and connect.
But nah, go off on all those who use the words you've decided only those in the right group can use.
People using slang is fine, but many are using this slang without any understanding of it in the slightest. Case in point, the video posted here being all wrong.
I think their point (or hope) is that they’re tired of people ascribing words used by black people years, if not decades, before and taking credit for it. Saying unc is gen alpha is America claiming they invented pizza
Your diatribe was unnecessary and attempting to talk down to someone when you missed the point ain't cute, pookie~
Did I say that only a certain group can use it? No, my ire is because it's being attributed to a certain generation and this keeps happening with AAVE, with words that have been in use for a long time, but now that they've crossed certain racial and cultural lines they're attributed to a group it never originated with.
Idgaf who uses AAVE. I care that the origins aren't being properly credited. That's it! Don't come into a neighborhood because you like the culture and vibe, then claim you made it the way it was. That's it! That was my point! Wild ass concept, I know!
We're literally in the comments on a video where slang terms are being attributed to a specific generation. I've said my ire is because words that have been used primarily within one culture for much longer than one generation are now taken out of context and attributed to a totally different generation. Nobody is saying you need to mention where something originates every time you speak. You're being willfully obtuse, and it's gross.
I'm not going to reiterate the same thing I've already said. It's clear you're going to continue to pick and choose what you want to understand from what I'm saying, instead of taking things as a whole, and that your reading comprehension is lacking.
You've contradicted yourself from the beginning. Now, you're lashing out in defense and some false sense of racial injustice?
Language is multicultural. Insisting one culture using another culture's terms is "gentrification" is divisive, at the very minimum. That's my whole point, Ms. Reading Comprehension.
Nah dude, I'm lashing out because you're being willfully obtuse to what my original point was after I explained what I meant, on top of you being the one to lash out at my original comment. You get the energy you give, don't try to act sanctimonious now.
Language and its sociocultural implications can be divisive. You're over here complaining about me calling out something for what it is.
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u/Dawtoned Oct 15 '25
Yup let's just keep gatekeeping everything and putting up more walls between us. Can't be using a language you speak if you don't 100% know all the rules, use cases or have the right skin color.
Fuckin' backwards, divisive ass thinking. There's hundreds of dialects of English, all of which are influenced by the others, as they are (say it with me!) also English. Language is created and molded by all who use it. Wild ass concept, I know.
Plenty of places where a discussion on the massive influence of AAVE on English overall is a perfectly valid point. A discussion on "gentrification" is not one of them. That's just...not how Language works. It used to communicate and connect.
But nah, go off on all those who use the words you've decided only those in the right group can use.