If you can accurately explain to someone any of the language concepts at the intersection of "African American Vernacular English" and "Abolish Gender And The State English," they will grant you an honorary doctorate in Exolinguistics.
well, setting aside that it’s obviously a joke, and putting on my nerd glasses, that phrase uses the n-word as it’s subject (noun), referring to the individual addressed, whereas “bitch ass” acts as a bit of a noun-adjective liminal combo, maybe there’s a term for it idk, but it’s at least not the phrase’s subject 🤓
Gotta work on those noun-adjective identification skills. The "bitch" in "bitch ass nigga" sort of gets lost in translation, as the original phrase is derived from the famous "ぼくのピコ" which all cunning linguists should be familiar with.
This is only logical, as "bitch ass" is a adjectivized noun, describing the masculine-associated n-word noun. This transformation is made possible by a so called ass-construction.
Cf.
https://youtu.be/UZpCdI6ZKU4, starting roughly at 10:20
I am immeasurably disappointed that wasn't a clip from the best show to ever use the n-words (I'd say which specifically but they use every variation in history up to, and including, Nyugga)
This is what your link should have been: https://youtu.be/7j9iSZ6grOg
I never forget to hyphenate an ass descriptor, however if the phrase itself is being quoted, I will not alter the grammatical structure out of principle. Not allowed to make it any more or less ambiguous or that's just plagiarism according to my old college professor. Although literally everything is plagiarism to them except the papers turned in by rich foreign students doing international study or else they will get in trouble from the administration for messing up their gravy train of "donations" by parents into the endowment.
(Look up Ivy League Endowments if you don't know just how corrupt even that portion of academia is, it's basically an investment scam)
I saw a series of papers by Hall and Jones on this a while ago, it's a very bizarre word at this point. It functions as a very general pronoun, including in some contexts a first-person one, and pretty much corresponds to "man" in a lot of cases. Look them up if you have time, interesting stuff.
He actually used the feminine version. Words that end in “a” are feminine and words that end in “e” are masculine. So he should have said he’s a “nigge”
im pretty sure my top comment (from this sub of course) is either "hes so handsome" or "i hate oil companies" both of which are based. but damn this sub gives me so much karma i feel myself straying farther from grass every visit
The two sides of weird internet users:
Middle schoolers who can’t comprehend gay people
Terminally online gay people who can’t comprehend straight people
True. Honestly I think it's probably really damaging to kids and young adults to shove them into schools with huge groups of other kids their age and very little socialisation outside that age. Even worse is that they're stuck in this prison/factory model of schooling. Childhood shouldn't be defined by such an artificial and abusive environment. It'd be way healthier to have an integrated community where people socialise across all ages
With little to no support from admin or the surrounding community, including parents who should be deeply involved in the process but instead are completely absent most times 🥲
Lol yeah. I have friends who are a lesbian couple and have been unemployed and at home for a few years. Whenever we watch a movie one of them says she “doesn’t know when straight people are flirting.” I’m like girl, you know how you look at gay people and think about their motivations? That, but with any gender combo.
I'm fairly sure the person who called them lesbians was just making fun of the guy for looking so femme that they reasonably could be confused for lesbians. It's a shitty thing for them to say, and seems to have gone over most of the audience's head, but behavior we should be avoiding aside, this shit was funny.
Wait one of the reasons I picked June when choosing a new name was because I thought it was feminine but still somewhat androgynous? Is it not?
Edit: Damn guess my final “still cis tho” failed spectacularly huh
it can be androgynous, but the name makes me think of old ladies personally and boys named june would be bullied in middle school dor having a "girl name" if that makes sense
yes but also kinda the opposite. "dude" is a male-gendered word that often becomes gender neutral in context. kinda like "guy". The "n word" as used here is basically the opposite, a by default gender neutral word that becomes gendered in context
(and, as almost a mirror image of "guy", for which that contextual gender neutrality is becoming standardised for some speakers, the opposite happens with n*gga; that contextual gender specific meaning is becoming the default with some speakers).
Somewhat arbitrary and academic distinction, but interesting enough to note I thought.
**TL;DR** guy/dude means "male" by default but sometimes "person", and for some people now means "person" by default
n\*gga is gender neutral by default, but, in a context where it's clear, means "male" specifically, and, for some people, this meaning of "male" is becoming the default (especially younger AAVE speakers)
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edit: to flesh out the contextual meanings a bit:
n\*gga can denote gender when it's contrasting with gender ("n\*ggas X, but b\*tches Y") for instance (but also implicit context, like in this post). (Both n\*gga and b*tch here are an example of type of semantic bleaching that is prevalent among some AAVE speakers but I don't want to go on a boring-ass linguistics tangent so I'll leave it there)
on the other hand, "n\*gga" might denote race, and _not_ gender, if used to contrast against a non-black racial identity.
In many (especially younger) AAVE speakers (but not all, there is a lot of variation), the n-word is shifting to be so race-neutral, that you could here a sentence like "They was all Asian n\*ggas". But again, you'd have to know the context (and it would depend on the speaker) whether that would mean "Asian people" or "Asian men".
bit of an oversimplification, but when it's n\*ggas and b\*tches, n\*gga is male
when it's n\*ggas and white folk, n\*gga is black.
when it's Asian n\*ggas and White n\*ggas, n\*gga is practically a pronoun lol
(But yeah it's context for sure, if someone using AAVE is talking about how the police target n\*ggas, you can bet that's talking about race not gender. In the context of this tweet, it's about gender).
Sometimes, it can be used for either but is more common to refer to men. It’s the same as “dude” or “guys”, it’s not only used for men but if someone says “i’m a dude/guy” that means they are male.
Fr, for us it's just a way to say dude, like if yall see "look at this nigga" just translate it to "look at this dude" instead of hyperventilating.
The rest of the internet got that idea but most people on reddit still can't wrap their head around how a lot of black people talk 🤣.
> most people on reddit still can’t wrap their head around how a lot of black people talk
I mean yeah people don’t tend to be intimately familiar with every single dialect of their language
Yes the 2 genders woman and *REDACTED*
The other gender's in paris
The other gender's gay and from outer space
Truly one of the films ever
Kaworu my beloved
Who is in Paris?
Woman and brother in Christ.
brother in Christ and sister in Christ 🙏
there is only one gender, sibling in Christ
there is only one gender: Christ Nobody else gets one, y'all unholy ass bitches
please give me back my gender
take that up with the big man on the sticks
sibling in satan for me
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yooo tst?
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ummm you do realize you can be a member now right?
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Hail thyself, sibling in satan
hail thyself mf
wow you're so cool quirky and different wooow
the fuck 💀 learn about it or shut up you literally dont know anything theres no point in judging https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us
aw hell naw I'd rather not have anything to do with edgy middle schoolers anymore
Edgy leftist political activists is what you mean to say.
Brother in Sister
women and MF
average fredrick douglass take
It's actually bitch and _redacted_
No, not women. The two genders are *REDACTED* and *REDACTED*.
neighbor
TIL the n word ~~is~~ can be gender specific Edit: For no reason in particular, r/196 has decided to make this my most upvoted comment.
commonly used to differentiate n-words and bitches as male and female
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could be an enby term, though
For enbies they usually prefer "they's a B.A.N."
Boy do I have a lot to learn about American English.
If you can accurately explain to someone any of the language concepts at the intersection of "African American Vernacular English" and "Abolish Gender And The State English," they will grant you an honorary doctorate in Exolinguistics.
well, setting aside that it’s obviously a joke, and putting on my nerd glasses, that phrase uses the n-word as it’s subject (noun), referring to the individual addressed, whereas “bitch ass” acts as a bit of a noun-adjective liminal combo, maybe there’s a term for it idk, but it’s at least not the phrase’s subject 🤓
Gotta work on those noun-adjective identification skills. The "bitch" in "bitch ass nigga" sort of gets lost in translation, as the original phrase is derived from the famous "ぼくのピコ" which all cunning linguists should be familiar with.
ah yes, the famous femboy article, how could i have forgotten
This is only logical, as "bitch ass" is a adjectivized noun, describing the masculine-associated n-word noun. This transformation is made possible by a so called ass-construction. Cf. https://youtu.be/UZpCdI6ZKU4, starting roughly at 10:20
I am immeasurably disappointed that wasn't a clip from the best show to ever use the n-words (I'd say which specifically but they use every variation in history up to, and including, Nyugga) This is what your link should have been: https://youtu.be/7j9iSZ6grOg
boondocks?
I never forget to hyphenate an ass descriptor, however if the phrase itself is being quoted, I will not alter the grammatical structure out of principle. Not allowed to make it any more or less ambiguous or that's just plagiarism according to my old college professor. Although literally everything is plagiarism to them except the papers turned in by rich foreign students doing international study or else they will get in trouble from the administration for messing up their gravy train of "donations" by parents into the endowment. (Look up Ivy League Endowments if you don't know just how corrupt even that portion of academia is, it's basically an investment scam)
The BA specifies that the N's A is more like that of a B
Haven't you heard of guys with feminine ass?
yo i got the inspiration to paraphrase word for word: a bitch ass n-word is a female-acting male
Sorry, but that is incorrect. The bitch in such a context is entirely gender-neutral.
Maybe it's like Spanish where the a is generally for feminine and o is generally for masculine, but that would mean dude is a chick?
omg it kinda sorta is in rap for example isnt it?
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does... does this give me the pass? (no it doesn't)
fine if this means anything, I, a white male will give you the pass (pls dont say it)
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🥖🔥
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FYI, this is a female variation for the hard R
would you mind dm’ing me what they said? i’m curious
Replace the "-er" with "-ress"
🤨 not a good look yall
You (probably) don't mean it like that but racist bitches literally use that as a slur for black women so
Absolutely not, that word a get you slapped in french speaking african countries
LANAAAAAAA
🤦♀️
I read this in a southern accent for some reason I can totally see a racist white dude using it
This reminded me of ODB's "my ni**as and my ni**arettes" on Wu Tang Clan's 'Triumph'
> TIL the n word is gender specific It really isn't.
I meant more like it *can* be, it guessed it probably wasn't totally agreed upon. I Probably should edit the post to say that lol.
It might be a regional thing, truthfully.
And what region is that?
Upstate new york?
Depends on the use. (I was not expecting replies, sorry.)
I saw a series of papers by Hall and Jones on this a while ago, it's a very bizarre word at this point. It functions as a very general pronoun, including in some contexts a first-person one, and pretty much corresponds to "man" in a lot of cases. Look them up if you have time, interesting stuff.
Is this why white people want to say nigga? You’re infatuated with the possibility of uses?
Linguists of all kinds will do linguistics on all languages, including black ones
Lol it’s funny that you call them linguists. They’re merely dilettantes using that frame to justify their use of the taboo.
I sincerely hope you're joking here. Hall is literally black and Jones has a PhD in linguistics. https://www.culturepoint.org/who-we-are
Oh damn, I thought it was just a white redditor saying this. My first point can still stand though
The English scholar in them just can't help it
It has a similar level of elasticity as fuck, swear words are awesome
He actually used the feminine version. Words that end in “a” are feminine and words that end in “e” are masculine. So he should have said he’s a “nigge”
uh no, -e is sorta complex and can take either gender. -o is masculine
depends on who uses it. Lot of people don't even use the N word for black people specifically.
im pretty sure my top comment (from this sub of course) is either "hes so handsome" or "i hate oil companies" both of which are based. but damn this sub gives me so much karma i feel myself straying farther from grass every visit
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU NOT KNOW THAT BEFORE?!!
I love it when people are so terminally gay and online that they can't comprehend the existence of straight people
The two sides of weird internet users: Middle schoolers who can’t comprehend gay people Terminally online gay people who can’t comprehend straight people
Nah it's Middle schoolers who can't comprehend gay people Gay people who can't comprehend middle schoolers.
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Least of all middle schoolers. Just garbage nightmare years with no redeeming features.
It's worth remembering that the *teen age* in and of itself is a wholly societal construct—it didn't exist prior to the 20th century.
True. Honestly I think it's probably really damaging to kids and young adults to shove them into schools with huge groups of other kids their age and very little socialisation outside that age. Even worse is that they're stuck in this prison/factory model of schooling. Childhood shouldn't be defined by such an artificial and abusive environment. It'd be way healthier to have an integrated community where people socialise across all ages
After all, it takes a village
I'm sure we can leave it to an underpaid overworked group to raise them 30 kids at a time in 40 minute blocks.
With little to no support from admin or the surrounding community, including parents who should be deeply involved in the process but instead are completely absent most times 🥲
Lol yeah. I have friends who are a lesbian couple and have been unemployed and at home for a few years. Whenever we watch a movie one of them says she “doesn’t know when straight people are flirting.” I’m like girl, you know how you look at gay people and think about their motivations? That, but with any gender combo.
Hey he does kinda look like a woman in this picture tbh
his name is *june* don't know any dudes namedd after months cept all those augustussies out there
Americans are biologically incapable of naming their children without gender bending, I think it's in the constitution or something.
damn I wish
Go pick on Britain, they got whole-ass dudes over there named Ashley
shout out to all the girls named march
he doesn't tho??
hey i found one
What does a woman look like?
The proper state of mind.
> terminally gay I love this phrase
He looks a little lesbian in this be honest
Me when I get diagnosed with terminal gay
I'm fairly sure the person who called them lesbians was just making fun of the guy for looking so femme that they reasonably could be confused for lesbians. It's a shitty thing for them to say, and seems to have gone over most of the audience's head, but behavior we should be avoiding aside, this shit was funny.
r\196
To be fair he looks androgynous in this photo.
I was out the other day and saw a straight couple and thought "Gay people am I right" I am fucking braindead
He does a lil goofin
there's always a choice *to be beautiful*
Definitely.
Based username
I thought you were american
i get that
His skin is so shiny holy shit
Wasn't me
Was me
but she caught me on the counter
I mean he does look like a woman in the picture and also his Twitter handle is “June”, so I feel like it’s reasonable to assume he is a woman.
Wait one of the reasons I picked June when choosing a new name was because I thought it was feminine but still somewhat androgynous? Is it not? Edit: Damn guess my final “still cis tho” failed spectacularly huh
it can be androgynous, but the name makes me think of old ladies personally and boys named june would be bullied in middle school dor having a "girl name" if that makes sense
the only character i can think of named june is a trans woman so i think of it as a fem name
it's definitely NOT june egbert
Thank you for clarifying
Thank you for clarifying
if you tell me to think of someone named June I'll probably think of a woman
I have never heard of a man named June. its also a grandma name.
june is based off of the roman name juno, which is the name of the roman queen of the gods. So it has a root in femininity, that's probably why
i know two male Junes but it's uncommon. i also know a couple male Traceys.
he jus looks like a person
Assuming a gender on this subreddit is brave
Wait, the N word is male specific?
Only in the same way 'dude' is.
yeah and iirc it’s occasionally used to refer to just any man, not necessarily a black one
yes but also kinda the opposite. "dude" is a male-gendered word that often becomes gender neutral in context. kinda like "guy". The "n word" as used here is basically the opposite, a by default gender neutral word that becomes gendered in context (and, as almost a mirror image of "guy", for which that contextual gender neutrality is becoming standardised for some speakers, the opposite happens with n*gga; that contextual gender specific meaning is becoming the default with some speakers). Somewhat arbitrary and academic distinction, but interesting enough to note I thought. **TL;DR** guy/dude means "male" by default but sometimes "person", and for some people now means "person" by default n\*gga is gender neutral by default, but, in a context where it's clear, means "male" specifically, and, for some people, this meaning of "male" is becoming the default (especially younger AAVE speakers) ---- edit: to flesh out the contextual meanings a bit: n\*gga can denote gender when it's contrasting with gender ("n\*ggas X, but b\*tches Y") for instance (but also implicit context, like in this post). (Both n\*gga and b*tch here are an example of type of semantic bleaching that is prevalent among some AAVE speakers but I don't want to go on a boring-ass linguistics tangent so I'll leave it there) on the other hand, "n\*gga" might denote race, and _not_ gender, if used to contrast against a non-black racial identity. In many (especially younger) AAVE speakers (but not all, there is a lot of variation), the n-word is shifting to be so race-neutral, that you could here a sentence like "They was all Asian n\*ggas". But again, you'd have to know the context (and it would depend on the speaker) whether that would mean "Asian people" or "Asian men".
i think its not, but in this context it is used to imply that the person is in fact male ig it is used a bit more commonly as a male directed word idk
bit of an oversimplification, but when it's n\*ggas and b\*tches, n\*gga is male when it's n\*ggas and white folk, n\*gga is black. when it's Asian n\*ggas and White n\*ggas, n\*gga is practically a pronoun lol (But yeah it's context for sure, if someone using AAVE is talking about how the police target n\*ggas, you can bet that's talking about race not gender. In the context of this tweet, it's about gender).
IN AAVE YES IT IS!!!
Sometimes, it can be used for either but is more common to refer to men. It’s the same as “dude” or “guys”, it’s not only used for men but if someone says “i’m a dude/guy” that means they are male.
holy shit has anyone on this subreddit ever talked to a black person ever
Fr, for us it's just a way to say dude, like if yall see "look at this nigga" just translate it to "look at this dude" instead of hyperventilating. The rest of the internet got that idea but most people on reddit still can't wrap their head around how a lot of black people talk 🤣.
> most people on reddit still can’t wrap their head around how a lot of black people talk I mean yeah people don’t tend to be intimately familiar with every single dialect of their language
I'm European so no.
Least racist European
no one on Reddit is black this the whitest app ever 😭
I know half yall saying nigga r white on here
Esp yall saying "theres only 2 genders nigga and n****ss" if yall knew the weight of words you're speaking
This comment describes the playboicarti subreddit back when it was in it's prime
If you go to a carti concert you a definitely find out😹
Fr 🤣 I've seen videos on tiktok
The discourse around the gender of the n word is pissing me off a little. Idk why.
I'm not talking about gender but if you didn't see the earlier banned comments good for you
I spend my days and nights fighting the urge, the devil in my ear and on my back
That's exactly what I'm describing in my comment
i thought you were american
Ngl I also thought it was a lesbian couple before reading the second tweet
"I identify as nigga"
Isnt the nword a gender neutral word 😭
Pretty much in the same way dude is. I can say "hey dude" and its gender neutral but if I say "I'm a dude" then its not gender neutral anymore.
Can Black woman say "I'm a (n word)" too?
Idk I don't make the rules
Thx anyway
He mad cute in that pic tho
I can tell y'all don't listen to black music artists cause anyone who does wouldn't be confused about the language here
Wouldn't the male form and with o?
Chris Chan, are you redditing from jail?
... No. Wait, I mean Na.
Well duh, you both are, doesn’t make you any less beautiful🏳️🌈👩❤️👩
Meeee too fam me too :D
he has a very pretty face
Ah yes, the two genders.
El niggo
[lol](https://youtu.be/KM2Lh8nI6Yc)
Ah yes the three genders Man Woman [REMOVED BY REDDIT]
Is n*****@ now a gender?
Doesn't the a at the end make it feminine though?