• @pigup@lemmy.world
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    177 months ago

    Except they didn’t make it up, like most previous generations, genz has stolen from black American vernacular.

    • @Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
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      227 months ago

      That’s how slang develops. It starts in ingroup vernacular and propagates out either fizzling out or sticking around as an actual word. AAVE is one of several sources. LGBTQ, sports, and video game lingo tend to be other popular sources.

      • @slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
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        97 months ago

        Ya, it comes from all over. Culture is a shared experience that brings people together and should not be treated as antagonistic, regardless of origin.

      • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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        57 months ago

        Yup, “Y’all” is the example I’d raise for folks who say it’s all AAVE, Y’all pretty firmly comes into American vernacular out of its use among rural farming communities, not necessarily usage among black culture.

        Not to mention how a significant chunk of new vernacular is going to always be coming from the diasporatic distribution pipeline bringing new languages and dialects to America constantly. Granted this is mostly how new kinds of food enter the American linguistic pallette, but you get the idea.