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so because i’m a doof who reblogged the “i’m not from the u.s.” questions post without tagging to let people know i was only reblogging for my non-u.s. followers and not for me i may have caused some confusion lmao but me and @ohthathurt cleared it up and i decided i’m still answering because these two questions had to do with language/dialect and, being black in america, i do technically also speak a different dialect than the standard (in addition to the standard) so.
18 - do you speak with a dialect of your native language? - yes, aave (african american vernacular english, also known as ebonics, a combo of ebony + phonics)
7 - three words from your native language that you like the most? - just gonna replace the word “language” here with “dialect” since that’s what more applies to me in this instance, but as y’all know i’m also super indecisive so this is probably gonna end up being a whole list (also some of these might be words everybody else knows/uses that just have slightly different meanings in the black community which i’ll prob give explanations for if the meaning’s not clear) but i would have to say my fave words/phrases are:
gurl bye/boy bye
swerve [bitch] - the bitch is optional lol
chill
nah
wild/extra/oc - oc stands for out of control btw, not sure if that’s dc-specific (as in washington, dc where I live and am from) or not but *shrugs*
crush - you ate or are about to eat something really fast cause you’re so damn hungry
finna - going to/about to do something (e.g. i’m finna go crush this kale salad lol; pretty sure this comes from a truncated version of the old southern phrase "fixing to go [do something]")
moe - pretty sure this one’s also dc-specific and there’s no good way to explain it, it’s just something used to refer to anything in general/end a sentence with, kind of like how son or young or cuz is used in other regions; i mostly use it in anger outrage (e.g. what you doing, moe??!! or chill, moe!), but it can really be used for anything (what’s up, moe or i need to go to sleep, moe lol)
you good - usually used to get someone to go away/leave you alone or shoo someone away which seems kind of paradoxical but it’s all in the way it’s said (e.g. you good, brah; nah, you good; might also include shooing hand motions or the side eye lol)
this my jam/that’s my jam - used mostly for music obvi but can also refer to pretty much anything you like (oh you got turkey pepperoni pizza? that’s my jam!)
the crew - a solid group of friends, basically a synonym to squad (which got way over used and ruined by white people but what else is new *long suffering sigh and eye roll*)
salty - still love this one, but also ^^see parenthesis above^^
[insert emotion/state of being here]boy - e.g. sadboy, madboy, tiredboy, wildboy…idk how to explain this it just makes things funnier
guh - another dc thing although it’s kind of old now and nobody really uses it anymore but it was basically synonymous with salty (e.g. oh her bf just broke up with her? she guh)
as a mug/like a mug - another dc thing (i think?) just a way of emphasizing things (e.g. he’s tall as a mug - not meant literally but just say he’s really tall or this/that is really whatever, etc.)
see, what had happened was… - great way to start a story lol (e.g. see, what had happened was…i started typing this list and then couldn’t stop and now i’m here with this ridiculously long post that nobody asked for, sorry @ohthathurt)
me @me:
i don’t know, nicki, i don’t know…send halp
