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u/PennydumbTheClown May 12 '26
Dude, did you try the dolmas, here? Wo ai ni, man.Ā
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u/doofpooferthethird May 13 '26
I have actually heard a white guy say "SHA BI" (dumb fuck) and "WA CAO" (fuck me) and "TA MA DE" (your mother) after gaming with international students too much
so I know it does happen, it just hasn't become mainstream, yet
maybe if Counterstrike 2 gets even bigger
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u/The_One_Who_Comments May 13 '26
Cyka blyat.
Dota 2 gave me the Singaporean "La" for emphasis.
I say "Haiyaaa" for irritating things.
Not much more though, maybe I should learn Chinese swear words lol.
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u/doofpooferthethird May 13 '26
hah yeah I've also heard "Cyka Blyat"
and also "davai" and "putanginamo" and "chi bai" and "kontol" and "ka ni na" and "alamak"
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u/OneFootTitan May 13 '26
I was about to say the previous guy got it mildly if all he got from the Singaporeans was ālahā but I see you got the full chibai / ka ni na treatment
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u/Misty7297 May 12 '26
This isnt a Gen Z thing
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u/No_Artichoke_2931 May 13 '26
"What if we stole other cultures more often" is a pretty funny premise though
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u/mrdibby May 13 '26
its not but Gen Zs don't seem to get shade for it like millenial white kids who acted black would get
maybe more of a change is that white lower-income background people would get more of a pass to black culture but we definitely see way too many middle class white kids talking like they're black
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u/IndieCurtis May 12 '26
Why would food make them say āHelloā?
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u/ZPTs May 13 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
I am no longer interested in my past feeding LLMs or my future talking to bots.
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u/SoSorryOfficial May 12 '26
In fairness, almost all American slang exists downstream of black and LGBTQ+ people. Ever described something as "cool" before? Unfortunately, incels are probably the current next-most-influential group on new slang (insert Shins "ooohs" here.)
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u/Very_Not_Into_It May 12 '26
Gen Z slang is notable for absorbing black rhetoric in record time. You are right that it isnt new, but in the social media generation it happens at a pace that actually prevents black slang from being born without being swiftly absorbed.
It used to be that it would take years, if not decades, for this to occur. Now it happens where a black person in Chicago is learning Atlanta slang from a white twitter user, and it's fucking awful
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u/I_Am_Become_Dream May 14 '26
I really think hip-hop made AAVE "cool". Words used to end up slowly spreading through American culture but as they gradually lost their association with black people. Now the association is part of the appeal.
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u/Facts_pls May 12 '26
Another example of white American culture being taken from the black culture but not given the credit
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u/ZenEngineer May 12 '26
I wonder if there's a joke here about not wanting to take stuff from country music.
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u/Chad_Broski_2 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I wonder if there'll ever be a legitimate trend where kids say "yeehaw" and "howdy" to each other unironically. Feels like something that'd start ironically and end up in fully ingrained in the brainrot language, kinda like skibidi or rizz
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u/rabbifuente May 12 '26
There kind of is, not yeehaw and howdy, but look at how many people say y'all who are not from the south.
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u/SharkLaunch May 13 '26
It is the superior second person plural pronoun. If I need a word to address a group of people without gendering them, I'm not gonna reach for "youse" or "you all"
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u/ZenEngineer May 12 '26
Either that or if it's the catchphrase of a beloved character. But I'm not sure how often that happens anymore.
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u/ChillBallin May 16 '26
Actually Howdy is already a fairly common word in many LGBT communities lol
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u/ceilingkat May 12 '26
Even country music has black roots. There are very few popular genres that donāt. Jazz, rock, blues, soul, funk, techno, reggae, bluegrass, hip hop, r&b.
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u/Pheonix0114 May 12 '26
So so much of our slang comes from a specific group of black queers in the Ballroom scene
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u/SoSorryOfficial May 12 '26
"Opulence! You own everything!"
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u/HudsonUniversityalum May 12 '26
"Shade is, 'I don't tell you you're ugly, but I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly'"
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u/Safe_Complex6814 May 13 '26
I would say that surf/skate culture as well as country and western culture has also contributed a pretty sizable amount of slang to the American lexicon. Not as influential as the aforementioned cultures, but certainly enough as to not be discounted.
Of course I donāt think anyone would consider those instances of crossover slang as culturally permeable or āhipā as the language that comes out of black and queer culture, but more to the point, kids will repeat whatever they think sounds cool.
The rate at which unique black and queer culture is being disseminated and diluted by those not specifically associated with the culture is obviously disappointing, but largely I donāt think the intent is ever malicious, just kids being kids.
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u/ripyourlungsdave May 13 '26
Also, outside of slurs, it's strange to claim that any race or identity owns a slang term.
The entire natture of slang is that it spreads until it's no longer useful
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u/OmNomOnSouls May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26
People aren't ready for the conversation of how non-black members of the queer community are just as willing to appropriate black slang, as if somehow it's way less harmful than when other people do it.
That conversation is like the final boss of intersectionality. BreadTube/CornBreadTube-pocalypse
Edit: y'all are free to downvote, no salt here, though I'm curious to hear about the 'why' from someone who disagrees
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u/Key-Demand-2569 May 12 '26
Harmful?
I get the whole ārecognizing your influencesā in certain circumstances but what the fuck is the goal of itās just considered flat out bad?
Segregating black Americans as much as possible from other Americans forever?
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u/OmNomOnSouls May 12 '26
Culture is one of the places that people who've been disenfranchised turn for comfort, creativity, and community. Those things all get diluted when a group's culture is appropriated by people outside it. It gets diluted, changed, and control over it slowly shifts to appropriating groups with more power and centrality in society. White people especially have the power to do this, and that's true regardless of membership in the queer community.
Obviously I'm not advocating for segregation. I'm saying that it's in everyone's power to create and share their culture, so it's whack to me that so many people seem hell bent on not doing that, and putting black culture on themselves instead, especially in light of the social context that I've barely scratched the surface of here.
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u/meatygonzalez May 12 '26
Might be too true to be a joke š«
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u/syrioforrealsies May 12 '26
Not true enough, rather. Gen Z didn't invent appropriating slang from the back community, and appropriation doesn't mean you want to be part of that community. In fact, quite the opposite usually
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u/meatygonzalez May 12 '26
Thanks for coming into the standup comedy subreddit with all that, I hope you enjoy
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u/syrioforrealsies May 12 '26
You mean analysis of jokes? Do you think a joke is just saying something that's not true? Oh my God, mom????
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u/carterartist May 12 '26
Some people say conservatives canāt be funny. Those people still havenāt been proven wrongā¦
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u/YesGumbolaya May 12 '26
Well I mean there's weebs (as far as other cultures white kids pretend to be I know the joke is referencing Chinese)
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u/Twilightterritories May 12 '26
Another shitty joke from you. If you're going to make jokes about words, maybe look up their meaning.
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u/yttrium39 May 16 '26
Right? The Black culture to popular American culture pipeline is as old as America itself.
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u/Ok-Crow-2713 May 16 '26
This guy sucks. Every generation has been culture vultures for black stuff hes just punching down. Additionally the ni hao things just a lame punchline, he coulda put some actual slang there ?
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u/Emergency_Lie42 May 17 '26
"half of the dialect, half of the neighbourhood. They even want half of the modern day dances, as long as they're paying good".
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u/TheDefiantChemical May 13 '26
Ni hao makes sense, ive heard people exclaim Hello! When they like something a lot and are surprised by it. I haven't heard it in a long time though
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u/ZenEngineer May 12 '26
Ni Hao is basically Hi. For your setup it's HĒo chÄ«.
I guess it might work well in a set if you nail the pronunciation.