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I was under the impression that everything was Gay Slang?
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I want to smooch & hug each one of them, with permission of coarse. I miss the gals / lady dudes from my time in San Francisco.
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These ladies are complete O.W.L.s!
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man, they were sharp as tacks. gotta love OWLs, haha. their young’un slang was a lot easier to suss out than the gay young’un slang to me.
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They are so cute and smart. Joy of the day ;).
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You’re forgetting that much of slang is black slang, actually.
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And/or Yiddish.
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Fair point!
So, the most original slang is probably from a black jewish lesbian?
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I think I know the one you’re thinking of. She played the cornet, and hosted jam sessions in her lower east side walkup in the 30s.
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That’s the one!
[ETA] Also, none of us would ever be that cool.
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Phyllis reminds me a lot of one of my aunts.
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And Romani. It seems to be a feature of marginalised communities.
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Gogol Bordello said it in one of their songs (talking about culture instead of language - but same principle) - “you love our music/but you hate us/I know you still want us/to sit on back of the bus…”
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She reminds me of my favorite high school guidance counselor, who is still a good friend 17 years later.
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Related, I had a conversation recently about the use of the genre “Gypsy punk”. I know many people feel that any use of “Gypsy” is pejorative; but Gogol Bordello’s frontman is proudly Romani, and their album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike coined (or perhaps merely popularized) the term “Gypsy punk”. So I’m not sure what to think. Obviously one member of a minority can’t give blanket permission to all white folks, but…I dunno.
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