• Bizzle
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    185 months ago

    Some people thought the aquarium was appropriating AAVE

    • @Anticorp
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      145 months ago

      How dare they express the joy that was in their hearts!

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      I don’t think “thicc” is AAVE. That is pretty much an Internet-ism as the original post says. “OH LAWD” though, yeah, is cringe.

        • @ZILtoid1991
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          45 months ago

          African-American Vocabulary English. Some people think it’s racist for white people to use them because cultural appropriation, which is a term that never should’ve left the academic circles it originated from, as people are using it way too broadly, and as something evil and bad.