[ SECRET POST #3491 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3491 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [repeat]


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[A Game of Thrones, Lyanna Mormont]


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04.
[Taylor Swift]


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[Spongebob Squarepants]


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[old French politics, RPS]


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[Sherlock Holmes, "The Final Problem”]


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(Camille Bordey and Richard Poole, Death in Paradise)


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[Futurama]


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[Bill Skarsgård at Pennywise in the new remake of It]










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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sparrow_lately]

Woke doesn't quite mean the same thing as awake and aware, tho.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

Oh. I didn't know that. What does it mean?

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sparrow_lately]

"Woke" has the connotation of political awareness, particularly of being woke to racial and socioeconomic injustice. "Stay woke" in particular is a kind of warning, like don't let your guard down or assume things are coincidences/benign when they're part of a larger pattern of injustice. If someone is woke, they're very politically and socially aware.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

Always attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

adding, I believe it etymologically comes from the idea of people saying they "woke up" ie have become enlightened to issues they were previously ignorant to, which is a term that has existed for way longer

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[tabaqui]

Actually, if you read the dictionary, they can all kind of meant the same thing, from when you got up (I woke up at seven when the cat jumped on me) to becoming cognizant of a new thing (having knowledge of and/or coming to a realization of).

So really, i think it's mostly to do with context.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

But it's a misuse of the verb. Woke can be awake, awoken, waking, awoke, etc. Stay woke, in an academic setting, would be an incorrect usage. You stay awake or you stay aware. Woke is past tense and stay implies something happening now. It's mixing tenses.

I know rules don't apply to slang, but since the thread asked what bothered us...

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[tabaqui]

I guess I'm not remotely familiar with 'woke' being a slang word or it's use beyond what the dictionary says. It seemed that the OP was saying it being used as 'aware' or 'awake' was annoying, not that they were objecting to a mixing of tenses. I'll have to go back and re-read.

And now i have to go to bed, because i have to be social with my mother in law way too fucking early in the day.
:)

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

Oh man, good luck! :)