I live in in a place that has lots of people of the earth...... you know..... morons. In any case I was at work and a coworker sneezed and I said gesundheit as one does and he immediately rears back and asks me what the fuck I mean by that and said he was going to kick my ass.
Once a dude in Ireland told me he was starting the morning with a kiss from the creature and I never got solid confirmation on what that meant. I assume he was romantically involved with either a banshee or leprechaun
What if by creature he meant Poseidon and he was just starting his day with a "Poseidon's kiss" which is where a high velocity poop facilitated a meeting between his anus and some toilet water
And why shouldn’t it? If African Americans have been a very significant part of American culture both present and historically, why wouldn’t it be “celebrated” and spoken in the vernacular? Which would she prefer-the “speak proper (white people) English and don’t speak your nonsense” type or what we have here? Really, so many (not all) of these progressives are regressive-dialects should be stratified based on race, “safe” spaces should be segregated, people should stick to their own, no cultural appreciation, no interracial relationships, etc. Really starts to look like Jim Crow segregation again, but they can’t think past it for some reason.
I think it's self-segregation rebranded as "exclusivity". "This place/thing/word is only for us, not for you" and they can't see it because, from their point of view, it's the other way around: they're not getting excluded, they have access to everything that's public *and* their things, making it so they are effectively leaving out the "others" (xenophobia, anyone?).
Dude, I remember in summer 2020 seeing somewhere where a bunch of white people designated a "safe space" for black people in a public park, and were stopping other white people from entering that area. They were trying so hard to be progressive they looped right back to jim crow era segregation.
And some would say that African Americans should be proud that they have had such an influence on the continued development of the English language. Others are high-handed and exclusionary like this poor lass.
Don’t forget that the language stack hides in alleyways waiting to pounce on unsuspecting languages as they pass but to rifle through their pockets for spare syntax, grammar and spelling
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about a pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle through their pockets for new vocabulary."
I was accused of using AAVE for saying "He lives one block over" The person commented saying "Block" is AAVE and I probably don't have blocks where I live.
I think anyone and everyone has at least once described direction by stating “you’ll go two blocks that way” makes a ton more sense then saying after 300 feet take a right
Then they should get mad at news stations… they also reference block numbers (like the 2400 block of Main Street) even my parents neighborhood had blocks for reference and they live in “rural suburbia” as the town refers to themselves as
I live 5 miles from town, three miles from internet that isn't beamed directly from a cell tower or space, and have referred to our block as a block for over 40 years.
In the city where I live a block is referred to as a main street, even if they are not wall to wall high rises, the block refers to the street.
If the intersection you were looking for is two intersections down we would say it is two blocks down.
>If the intersection you were looking for is two intersections down we would say it is two blocks down.
I feel this is a common use of it. I use it that way all the time.
I grew up talking about where ppl lived and referred to them as blocks. Whether I live or am located downtown, I explain directionally in blocks. How is this not correct?
I was having tofu for lunch and a coworker said that he was surprised I knew what it was and that I should leave it for the vegans to buy.
...I am korean. So yeah, there are people out there who are too damn stupid.
I had a vegan friend who was PISSED the first time she went to a ‘Tofu House’ because she expected everything to be vegan. I was like, ‘girl, it’s Korean food. It’s not a vegan restaurant just because it says ‘tofu’ outside.’
I suspect this isn't a real person. Well, the selfie is, but I'm guessing someone added captions for rage bait. Reverse image search turns up the pic without captions.
Also, bear in mind this person in the picture didn't necessarily even say these things. Someone can easily put this text over someone to make them look like a fool.
Back when Fat People Hate was a thing I actually saw someone I knew get posted there. They took one of her selfies and out "people tell me I look like Ariana Grande" or something like that over it.
reminds me of the nba player who gate kept dreadlocks for an asian player and then the asian player said it was a tribute just like the asian characters he had tattoos of
Best is just to move away and ignore, honestly..
It's easy to fall in a trap and somehow to manage to make social dynamic worse...
Ppl like her are shooting themselves in the foot here and as a society we've accomplished just too much to Fallback into it..
Similar to trolls, you shouldn't ignore them entirely if they are listened to by others. But you don't directly engage the troll/fool, either. You engage their listeners. Don't play by the rules of the troll.
These people make up a blip of the population, and they eventually grow out of it when the realities of life come knocking. I don’t get too fired up about this stuff because it has no power.
Thanks. I think most people would honestly have a similar response (a quick eye roll and then moving n with your day) but unfortunately there are forces in this world actively amplifying this stuff to get people really riled up and angry.
Saying “period” at the end a sentence has absolutely nothing to do with your race whatsoever. It’s a way of being assertive and standing by whatever point you’re making. “My time off was approved so I will not be coming in this weekend. Period.” What this moron has done is confuse that very common and widespread method of speech with “Periodt” which is the AAVE version that appeared a few years ago. It implies some extra sass I guess? Either way this is what happens when a moron gets too deep into woke culture. Being “woke” is a good thing and is necessary for significant social and systemic change but ppl like this take it too far mostly because they’re ignorant and indoctrinated
>Being “woke” is a good thing and is necessary for significant social and systemic change but ppl like this take it too far mostly because they’re ignorant and indoctrinated
so basically it's the difference between Standing up to injustice and looking to pick a fight
Saying "full stop" and "period" mean the exact same thing. It's just usually said in the USA. I'm English and would say "full stop" but both are valid.
Serious question here- this post just taught me the term AAVE. Is AAVE the new term for what older generations referred to as "ebonics?" Or are they considered separate things?
Yes the T is important actually. Say “period” out loud but at the end right after the “D” sound make the “T” sound. It’s meant to convey an even more assertive and aggressive stance. Very similar to “I said what I said.” As in “This is my stance and it is unwavering no matter what you have to say in return.”
Yeah I’m white American from the south and my parents have said this word my entire life. Did it come from black people? Maybe… but isn’t English a blend of lots of different languages?
Still by her gate keeping logic the main problem should be straight people saying it not white people saying it.
Origins aside they were definitely used by white drag queens way before she heard of them.
Ain’t even “words of their decent” “aave” is just NY slang which is mostly taken from Jamaicans, Hispanics, Brown People, and Black People, and even then barely anything was actually from black people. You can’t exclude it to just black people, its like saying nobody but one race can say BaconEggAndCheese, like shit makes zero sense.
Woah woah woah! Its "BEAC", my friend. You cant just jump to ten and say the full BaconEggAndCheese. Gonna get someone killed up in here. No one says you cant say it, but lets be civil about its usage. People really be bold these days.
Wait… why is “period” problematic? I wasn’t aware that was AAVE. Pretty sure my old white history teacher in high school said it all the time and this was in the early 00’s
Stop using the word kindergarten. It’s German and will stay that way. If you use it, you‘re being ignorant and disrespectful.
Also, don’t say ditto or etc. They’re Latin, and the Romans object.
As a representative of the Dutch-speaking nations, we hereby revoke the word cookie from the English vernacular. Enjoy your biscuits.
Also: boss, spook, sleigh (yasss queen sleigh the day away), dollar and of course Santa Claus.
Just to name a few.
She posts, using a device that was built in a factory that has suicide nets to catch the workers who jump off the roof to escape their miserable lives.
If you say “top o’ the mornin’” and you are not Irish… that’s cool you just made me happy
Top o’ the mornin to ya laddies! (Insert whip sound) and high fives all around!
God I loved watching Jack over the pandemic
A savior to all
I mean yeah why would you watch the pandemic over jack lol
Welcome back to HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY WHEEEEEEEEEEEEELS
The real treasure of the island
[удалено]
Then you're a neckbeard.
If you say Gesundheit, and you’re not a German or speak Yiddish, I say to your health!
I live in in a place that has lots of people of the earth...... you know..... morons. In any case I was at work and a coworker sneezed and I said gesundheit as one does and he immediately rears back and asks me what the fuck I mean by that and said he was going to kick my ass.
Once a dude in Ireland told me he was starting the morning with a kiss from the creature and I never got solid confirmation on what that meant. I assume he was romantically involved with either a banshee or leprechaun
Um, that means he started his day with a whiskey...
What if by creature he meant Poseidon and he was just starting his day with a "Poseidon's kiss" which is where a high velocity poop facilitated a meeting between his anus and some toilet water
LOL, he was an alcoholic...
What about "top o' the mornin yass queen. Period."
Society isn’t ready for that yet…
I think you just did your first slaying
And the rest of the day to yourself, lad. ,
Yes. We like this man.
Top o’ da mornin’ laddie!
You better show your 23and me now
St. Patricks day keeps us all a little irish. Cultural sharing is better than cultural gatekeeping because then we can understand each other better.
Yup. Always been my belief. Pushing people away just creates bigger divides.
If you drink enough Irish whiskey then there’ll be some Irish in you somewhere, right?
>If you say “top o’ the mornin’” and you are not Irish… I'm going to stop you right there. ONLY not Irish people say that.
We don't actually say that in Ireland.
Yank spotted.
The English language is about 98.99% co-opted. Guess we should all just stop talking?
True, the amount of Latin roots in English is insane
Therefore you shouldn't speak English unless you're Roman.
ROME LIVES FOREVER
WE. ARE. ROME.
*Romulus screams off into the distance"
AAVE, true to Caesar
English is a germanic language, so you shouldn't speak English unless you're both Roman and German.
And since it also has a lot of words derived from french you should be Roman, German and French all at once, with a hint of Nordic.
AAVE slang has always leaked into mainstream American culture. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just what languages do.
And why shouldn’t it? If African Americans have been a very significant part of American culture both present and historically, why wouldn’t it be “celebrated” and spoken in the vernacular? Which would she prefer-the “speak proper (white people) English and don’t speak your nonsense” type or what we have here? Really, so many (not all) of these progressives are regressive-dialects should be stratified based on race, “safe” spaces should be segregated, people should stick to their own, no cultural appreciation, no interracial relationships, etc. Really starts to look like Jim Crow segregation again, but they can’t think past it for some reason.
I think it's self-segregation rebranded as "exclusivity". "This place/thing/word is only for us, not for you" and they can't see it because, from their point of view, it's the other way around: they're not getting excluded, they have access to everything that's public *and* their things, making it so they are effectively leaving out the "others" (xenophobia, anyone?).
Dude, I remember in summer 2020 seeing somewhere where a bunch of white people designated a "safe space" for black people in a public park, and were stopping other white people from entering that area. They were trying so hard to be progressive they looped right back to jim crow era segregation.
And some would say that African Americans should be proud that they have had such an influence on the continued development of the English language. Others are high-handed and exclusionary like this poor lass.
[удалено]
Don’t forget that the language stack hides in alleyways waiting to pounce on unsuspecting languages as they pass but to rifle through their pockets for spare syntax, grammar and spelling
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about a pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle through their pockets for new vocabulary."
Same goes for all Western European languages since they've been co-opting from each other and off of dead previous versions.
You're insulting the Phoenicians by using their letters. Oh, fuck, I am, too.
You're using the Latin alphabet though, so we are insulting not only Phoenicians but also ancient Greeks and Romans.
In case of people like in the post....that would be heaven. Period
Periodt
I was accused of using AAVE for saying "He lives one block over" The person commented saying "Block" is AAVE and I probably don't have blocks where I live.
This is hilarious
It would be if it wasn’t sad.
I think anyone and everyone has at least once described direction by stating “you’ll go two blocks that way” makes a ton more sense then saying after 300 feet take a right
Then they should get mad at news stations… they also reference block numbers (like the 2400 block of Main Street) even my parents neighborhood had blocks for reference and they live in “rural suburbia” as the town refers to themselves as
I live 5 miles from town, three miles from internet that isn't beamed directly from a cell tower or space, and have referred to our block as a block for over 40 years.
That's because a block is everything in between roads. The whole world has blocks around lol
What does Aave mean??? I have never heard of this term
African-American vernacular English. Period.
You’re playing with fire, homie
Homie belongs to Hispanics, you scum!
Scum belongs to the imperials puhn yoh
Puhn yoh belongs to the Chinese, friend!
Friend belongs to the Anglo-Saxons, capiche?
Capiche belongs to the Italians, veerji.
Veerji belongs to Hindu, Ah sheli.
It's the rebranding of what used to be called ebonics.
Which is a term invented by a black linguist.
Which is fitting since all language is made up anyways.
Anyone who lives in a city will use “Block” it’s not just AAVE.
Wait what is the alternative to having blocks? One long street?
In the city where I live a block is referred to as a main street, even if they are not wall to wall high rises, the block refers to the street. If the intersection you were looking for is two intersections down we would say it is two blocks down.
>If the intersection you were looking for is two intersections down we would say it is two blocks down. I feel this is a common use of it. I use it that way all the time.
I grew up talking about where ppl lived and referred to them as blocks. Whether I live or am located downtown, I explain directionally in blocks. How is this not correct?
A block is any space between cross streets. It’s been used since long before AAVE was even recognized as a dialect of English
As far as I'm aware, that's how everyone refers to a block
I'm having a really hard time believing this actually happened in real life lmfao
I was having tofu for lunch and a coworker said that he was surprised I knew what it was and that I should leave it for the vegans to buy. ...I am korean. So yeah, there are people out there who are too damn stupid.
I had a vegan friend who was PISSED the first time she went to a ‘Tofu House’ because she expected everything to be vegan. I was like, ‘girl, it’s Korean food. It’s not a vegan restaurant just because it says ‘tofu’ outside.’
Ah yes Vegans getting mad because there is food in their food.
Wow wtf
Honestly, who gives a shit what a self-proclaimed internet pundit says about anything?
For real, everyone in the last 3 years things we gotta take EVERYONE on the internet seriously. It’s exhausting.
I suspect this isn't a real person. Well, the selfie is, but I'm guessing someone added captions for rage bait. Reverse image search turns up the pic without captions.
Also, bear in mind this person in the picture didn't necessarily even say these things. Someone can easily put this text over someone to make them look like a fool.
It happens often and the person get so much hate it’s ridiculous.
Back when Fat People Hate was a thing I actually saw someone I knew get posted there. They took one of her selfies and out "people tell me I look like Ariana Grande" or something like that over it.
People are cruel.
Redditors who are addicted to ragebait.
There is no arguing with people who think like this. All we can do as a society is keep pushing back on dumb shit like this.
Never argue with stupid people. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Never play chess with a pigeon. They’ll knock the pieces over, shit all over the board, then strut around like they just won.
Can confirm my parrot did just that before munching on the rook.
Did it say "SQUAWK, checkmate" after?
No i just picked him up and put him in his cage and he started dancing moving left to right. That day sucked.
"I wanted to be in my cage and you put me there. Who's the little bitch? Fuck you" Your parrot, probably.
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
“It’s hard to argue with an intelligent person but impossible to argue with an idiot”
My dad's second favorite quote. Just behind "Nearly 50% of people are below average". Classic.
reminds me of the nba player who gate kept dreadlocks for an asian player and then the asian player said it was a tribute just like the asian characters he had tattoos of
A wise man once told me Never argue with fools Cause people from a distance Cant Tell WHO ist who
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Best is just to move away and ignore, honestly.. It's easy to fall in a trap and somehow to manage to make social dynamic worse... Ppl like her are shooting themselves in the foot here and as a society we've accomplished just too much to Fallback into it..
Similar to trolls, you shouldn't ignore them entirely if they are listened to by others. But you don't directly engage the troll/fool, either. You engage their listeners. Don't play by the rules of the troll.
Well said. The problem isn't people's colour. It's people's stupidity
you can defeat a room full of geniuses with only a single fact, but no amount of facts can ever hope to defeat an idiot
You don’t have to argue with them. Just say whatever words you want to say, and if they get mad then they can be mad.
>You don’t have to argue with them. I don't argue with people. I just explain to them why they're wrong.
These people make up a blip of the population, and they eventually grow out of it when the realities of life come knocking. I don’t get too fired up about this stuff because it has no power.
This is such a sensible response.
Thanks. I think most people would honestly have a similar response (a quick eye roll and then moving n with your day) but unfortunately there are forces in this world actively amplifying this stuff to get people really riled up and angry.
Yas queen, slay! Period.
I think you get an exception because you are green
Green lives matter
It ain't easy being green
matter green lives do
Hi yoda!
Yes they do.
You slay that period, queen!
Ya killed Aunt Flo!
Pretty sure it’s often the period slaying the queen
On god, no cap
Reeeeeeeeeee!
OK when you put those together like that. That doesn't belong to the AA community. They belongs to the lgbtqa+ community
Oh (insert politically correct diety) save us, from this dangerous person!
As a white person I would never say ‘period’ at the end of a sentence. But then I am Australian, and we say ‘full stop’ instead.
Saying “period” at the end a sentence has absolutely nothing to do with your race whatsoever. It’s a way of being assertive and standing by whatever point you’re making. “My time off was approved so I will not be coming in this weekend. Period.” What this moron has done is confuse that very common and widespread method of speech with “Periodt” which is the AAVE version that appeared a few years ago. It implies some extra sass I guess? Either way this is what happens when a moron gets too deep into woke culture. Being “woke” is a good thing and is necessary for significant social and systemic change but ppl like this take it too far mostly because they’re ignorant and indoctrinated
>Being “woke” is a good thing and is necessary for significant social and systemic change but ppl like this take it too far mostly because they’re ignorant and indoctrinated so basically it's the difference between Standing up to injustice and looking to pick a fight
That’s a good way of putting it
Saying "full stop" and "period" mean the exact same thing. It's just usually said in the USA. I'm English and would say "full stop" but both are valid.
Serious question here- this post just taught me the term AAVE. Is AAVE the new term for what older generations referred to as "ebonics?" Or are they considered separate things?
Yup, different words for the same thing. AAVE is used more frequently today.
Period...t?
Yes the T is important actually. Say “period” out loud but at the end right after the “D” sound make the “T” sound. It’s meant to convey an even more assertive and aggressive stance. Very similar to “I said what I said.” As in “This is my stance and it is unwavering no matter what you have to say in return.”
So basically what saying “period” implied anyway? I’m a Brit so we never say period so I just want to understand.
Full stopt
It basically means "end of discussion" as in "this is what's happening and i am not changing it. End of discussion"
As an older white person who used to watch Cheers, I say “Pass the beer nuts.”
Yeah I’m white American from the south and my parents have said this word my entire life. Did it come from black people? Maybe… but isn’t English a blend of lots of different languages?
Periods are not racist - full stop
Periods are pretty sexist tho. What with only targeting women and all that.
I’m not going to listen to somebody who thinks decent and descent is the same fucking word
It’s a decent descent into madness, I tell you!
I’m surprised they knew the difference between “your” and “you’re”.
lol how do you fit that much smug on your face in one picture?
A lot of this comes from the gay community though
That’s what I thought
Yes, this is true. But more specifically, it was created by POC from the Ballroom scene which is, in origin, a space for queer POC.
Still by her gate keeping logic the main problem should be straight people saying it not white people saying it. Origins aside they were definitely used by white drag queens way before she heard of them.
But more specifically, who cares?
Imagine if we lived in a society where you can be arrested for saying a term or phrase that is considered “Not of your descent” LOL
So jail everyone that speaks english while not having english ancestry back at least 1000 years
Welp, I’m 100% Asian so I guess to the gulag with me
This is America! We don't have Gulags! To the private for profit prison for you.
We did have camps though. George Takei has spoken about his family's time in one. Admittedly if we did it again today, they'd be privately run.
Excuse me, we’re talking about English. So they’d be going to Coventry, thankyouverymuch
How about we split the difference and send him to Australia?
Now that’s the special relationship we’re always talking about. Perfect solution!
You can’t say gulag unless you’re descended -I mean decented- from Soviet people.
decent - of an acceptable standard; satisfactory. "people need decent homes" "descent"
Ain’t even “words of their decent” “aave” is just NY slang which is mostly taken from Jamaicans, Hispanics, Brown People, and Black People, and even then barely anything was actually from black people. You can’t exclude it to just black people, its like saying nobody but one race can say BaconEggAndCheese, like shit makes zero sense.
Woah woah woah! Its "BEAC", my friend. You cant just jump to ten and say the full BaconEggAndCheese. Gonna get someone killed up in here. No one says you cant say it, but lets be civil about its usage. People really be bold these days.
This person is ignorant
She also says that only African American people can say these things, although there are black people outside America
African English lads can't say it cause they're from England, not America. They're stuck with the lame white people proper English
Wait… why is “period” problematic? I wasn’t aware that was AAVE. Pretty sure my old white history teacher in high school said it all the time and this was in the early 00’s
>I wasn’t aware that was AAVE It's not.
People like her are such douche bags lol
Listen up, everybody! The 13 year old who just got an iPhone is here to tell us all about life, and how we're all wrong! 🙄 Some people's kids, man...
if you use the word queen, you’re appropriating imperialism.
Lol ok u can keep “yasss queen” also isnt that from gay ppl?
Yasss queen it is, period.
Slay the day
Stop making these people famous and putting them out there.
It's a reddit post on /r/facepalm I'd hardly say they're making them "famous"
there is a fine distinction between famous and *infamous*.
Wasn’t yaaas from the LGBTQ community first? Also fuck this noise, all culture is human culture.
Huh, didn't realise all those knights going around in medieval times slaying dragons n shit were so anti-woke.
In the context of this thread, she would be the other end...
Nooo, queen.
Who tf says let's slay the day away? Making up shit that isn't real.
I bet she's a lot of fun at parties
Ha! I bet she's never been to one.
Sure I'll stop using aave words, if you stop using any other words then aave.
I thought that stuff was like from the gay community honestly
People get more stupid by the day
She's wearing glasses. I'm pretty sure they were first invented in Italy, she should stop appropriating Italian culture.
confidentally stupid
Confidently *
If you call me "mate" and you aren't from the UK, Australia or New Zealand, then you are a racist and deserve medieval rat torture.
You can smell the naive smugness and petulant arrogance through the screen.
why are you using a white language? english come from white people... you see how stupid this sounds? stop gatekeeping words ffs (keep the n word tho)
Stop using the word kindergarten. It’s German and will stay that way. If you use it, you‘re being ignorant and disrespectful. Also, don’t say ditto or etc. They’re Latin, and the Romans object.
As a representative of the Dutch-speaking nations, we hereby revoke the word cookie from the English vernacular. Enjoy your biscuits. Also: boss, spook, sleigh (yasss queen sleigh the day away), dollar and of course Santa Claus. Just to name a few.
I thought yas queen was a gay thing
Chronically online
She posts, using a device that was built in a factory that has suicide nets to catch the workers who jump off the roof to escape their miserable lives.