[ SECRET POST #3428 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3428 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What is AAVE?

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[(Anonymous)]

African-American vernacular English.

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[comma_chameleon]

So... a common lazy shorthand is now being ascribed to one particular subset of Americans and no one else can use it. Oh. Okay. What about 'thru'? Or 'ok'? Can we use those?

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[(Anonymous)]

I didn't make the claim about 'tho', I was just saying what AAVE stands for.

My personal view is that cultural discourse in America is a rich and complex tapestry and that it's natural for things to spread between different groups - that's just the way that language works - but at the same time you have to strike a balance with identity and belonging and self-hood, and I think the best approach to striking that balance is to look at the specifics and decide on a case by case basis. Making hard-and-fast rules usually leads to a nonsensical conclusion. So, for me, slang like "tho" is just a part of the wider American vernacular, the rich interplay of language and meaning that's part of the human heritage. But something like "Oakland booty" is too specific of a reference to a place and a community for me to be comfortable treating it that way.

But that's just how I happen to feel about it.