the overlap of linguistic appropriation and race in a social context as diverse and historically loaded with abuse as the US is fascinating—especially when it repeats certain patterns

  • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Because calling it black people dialect doesn’t quite work well in an academic context and it’s highly specific to american black diaspora.

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      13 hours ago

      y here meant “yes” as in the affirmative, not y as in “why?”

      gen z vs millenial/boomer text (im a millenial, been getting used to gen z internet vernacular) ;)

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      1 day ago

      that’s a coarse way of putting it but sure

      more precisely there’s millions of black people in the world and a good chunk of them aren’t african american. it’s just precise use of language to describe language.