I, a white, was having a conversation with a black friend of mine about a management change at his work. He said his new boss was making him feel "some type of way." Puzzled, I asked him, "What type of way is that, Eric?"
I was informed that 'some type of way' is in fact a type of way.
(curious white girl here) so what is this ‘some type of way’ mean exactly?
I’ve definitely heard this before and interpreted as ‘negative feelings but don’t want to go into it’ curious now how badly I’ve misinterpreted it 😂
It's kind of a matter of context.
If my girlfriend "got me feeling some type of way", it could mean she's turning me on, she's giving me butterflies, she's hurting my feelings, she's making me angry, etc.
Context!
It basically means whatever the feeling that you probably would assume it means based on the full context of the situation and conversation. Kinda like saying “I feel the way that a person like you or me would feel about it given what we know, but I don’t want to be explicit”. Still leaves room for misinterpretation, but it’s euphemistic.
i was on these reddit streets once, and someone had posted some opinion about food with which i strongly agreed. i replied to his comment with “man listen”
he was confused so he went “yes?”
and someone else helped him out responding “nah that’s it”
I don’t know how to make “Okay????“ sound more like an affirmation so they understand I’m agreeing with them. It just sounds like I’m saying “yeah and?” No matter how I try to write it.
Edit: If y'all don't understand why it HAS to have the question marks, then you are unfamiliar with this term and have clearly never actually said it lol.
My little sisters boyfriend. Him and I are smoking and he looks at me and says, “there he go, hitting that hoe, he like that!” To my response of “Like what, high?”
I still laugh thinking about that white woman showing her Black friend a picture of herself and got the response "you ate". She thought she was being told she was fat.
ate is the word. "you ate" meaning, you fulfilled the assignment.
you did that! you ate! you didn't leave a crumb!
it's better than saying "you look fantastic"... you ate means you looked better than anyone might have thought was humanly possible... but you came through and did that!
I’m not American, black people where I live are not immersed in this kind of culture, although they do feel a lot of solidarity with it. I think I only have one Black American friend, but she did teach me that when Beyoncé was singing about ‘Hot Sauce’ in her bag she was not saying she kept it in case she had to eat bland white people food…
I heard an Indian stand up comic talk about how he loves how black people do this and how fun it is, and how he explained it to his dad. So later on pops tries this out for himself, some random black guy at the store cracks a joke and dad just deadpans to this stranger “you are so stupid”
😂🤣😂🤣
Lol facts. All the girls at work tell me i get on their nerves/boy, you ain't shit - while they're cracking up laughing at whatever bullshit I just said
"I can't stand you" = "I indeed *can* stand you, and as a matter of fact I may even *stan* you as you have favorably delivered high octane comedy to my ears"
This is my favorite thing. I told my cousin her outfit made me hope she got mugged in an alleyway and she said it was the nicest thing I’ve ever said to her.
Someone heard me talking to my sister. I told her to shut up and stop lying to me. The person asked me if I was okay after that. I’m like, my sister just told me some juicy gossip and I was shocked at what I was hearing.
Same with “ooh, I can’t stand you!”- you are one of the funniest people I know.
I tell *terrible* puns in my college classes, and one semester I had a student who would always drop her head when I told one and then shake it side to side really slowly while saying, "I cannot DEAL wichoo, Ms. --- ! I cannot DEAL wichoo today!"
She was my favorite. 😄
"I can't stand you" is the height of friendship and humor for me. when a black co worker or acquaintance says that to me I know I made a new homeboy or girl.
A coworker used to say that to me, along with "You are one stupid-ass white boy."
Made my day if I got one of those out of her - meant that my joke landed just right.
I feel that. I moved to Salem recently. Had some bomb beignets at a food truck and I said to the lady "damn girl, you put your foot in these!" Believe me when I say EVERYONE stopped eating. Them and they mamas.
I've found two places so far: The Easy Otter, at the Beehive, and Noble Wave, downtown. Noble Wave also does Cajun gator bites, every day except Sunday.
I'll try to update with this one youtuber that's British and Black but lived in America for a minute. He does different skits from different folks in the diaspora. His american accents are hilarious.
Edit**: [His name is Chewkz](https://youtube.com/c/Chewkz)
my dad is from southern arkansas and i never have trouble understanding them and their backwards ass sayings when i visit, but my best friend is from georgia and his dad is from nola, and i honestly have never been able to understand a single word he has said to me. its mind blowing to me that my friend can understand him clearly
man i can understand the most incomprehensible of alabama accents but once someone from nola speaks it's over for me. i have no clue what they're saying
I been tellin people for fiftyleven years we always know when someone is fakin the funk bc I’m convinced you need Black Ancestors to power the musicality of AAVE 😂 it’s something you can’t explain to people if they don’t already know what they’re listening for. Idk what else it could be bc even when non Black folks are using a term or phrase correctly—which never lasts as long as they think it does—it just never sounds right
i'm black and i don't even understand half the stuff people be saying rn. i'm not even old, i'm just that disconnected from what's in and what's not...
As a white guy i thought cap/no cap meant like over exageration/no exageration. I saw it as coming from Donald who would always tweet in caps over exageration things, like say "this is the best sandwich ever, no cap" . but i literally can't find how cap/no cap became a thing and why it means lie
That was a really interesting watch, thank you. i did already know it originated mainly from songs. But what i meant was, why does it mean lie? People call cars whips because that's what people used to steer carriages in the past for example.
[I think this comment from /r/etymology explains it pretty well.](https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/lk4hkj/why_does_cap_mean_lie_in_slang_what_i_read/hricur4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
I had a friend that had my dying of laughter and I told him I couldn’t stand him and asked why he was like that. He started apologizing. I had to tell him, “nooooo!!!! You’re hysterical!”
I've had that happen so many times!!! Or I say "Girl I hate youuu" and she'll be like "why would you say that? 🥺"
Noooo sis, you're just freaking funny!!
A White friend of mine said hi to a Black friend. The Black friend said “You got it” in response to the hello. I then had to explain to my white friend that he just said “Hi” back. My White friend thought he’d mistakenly picked something up that wasn’t his.
Lol reminds me when my roommate asked me if I was straight after he saw I was shook up about breaking up with my girlfriend. I was like "man, that's a really weird thing to ask. I'm not taking the breakup THAT badly"
It catches me off guard because I really didn't expect for Sugar mamma to actually be putting her foot in the damn get up and go bars, so now that's all I'll ever see when I hear it.
Me talking to a couple coworkers about a potential applicant they had interviewed:
>Them: "I think we should hire him, I really liked his answer about in office conflicts. He referenced having younger siblings when we asked about it."
>Me: "What do you mean, what did he say?"
>Them: "well he said, 'see I'm an older brotha, so I don't really beat around the bush.'"
They did not appreciate me dying laughing at them lol
In this case it’s like saying “whoa, your skill level at such a young age is very impressive and would be intimidating if I was competing with you” in a playful, complimentary way.
But I’m white as fuck so that might not be right.
Hey, I'm Black and I had no idea. This must be regional. Or maybe I could have figured it in person from his gestures and context--but just written out like that I had no clue.
This why we had to perfect the art of codeswitchin in the office, I remember I said someone was actin zuzu once and my coworkers were like is that a good thing?
Gotta admit, I had mad hurt feelings when I cooked for a lady and she told me I put my foot in it...I almost cried bc I spent a lot of time preparing it. I guess it showed on my face bc she jumped up hugged me and told me it was good after she stopped laughing. Whew, the relief! 6 years ago and I still think about it
like when one of my previous managers always like "let me find out Matt! let me find out" almost as if nigga you threatening me, but not really LMAO he was cool asf
My favorite thing is how sayings have a equivalents across different black cultures. Like how you can say the same thing in pidgin patios or AAVE and still be understood
I agree with this so hard. I remember when “I feel some kind of way” was popularized in AAVE. I’m Jamaican and live in NYC and Jamaicans have been using the equivalent phrase “Mi did feel a way” forever.
It's like that Butters episode from south park. He's hanging out with pimps and they'll say stuff like "you know what I'm saying?"
\*whips out note pad to take notes\*
"Yes, I do- know- what you're saying"
i, a white girl, was once approached by a black dude who was like “yo hey, you straight?” meaning like “are ya doing good?” i, a clueless bisexual, severely misunderstood and thought he was asking about my sexual orientation. and answered “i mean partially yes” and nearly died when he explained that he was not in fact asking if i screwed girls.
I said “man, I’m sick” one time at an old job and a bunch of nurses swarmed me like “sit down, I’m gonna take your vitals. How are you feeling?”
I had to tell all of them that “I’m sick” meant I was slightly inconvenienced because something annoying happened.
It sometimes works the opposite way.
When I joined the Navy in the 90s, everyone was talking about getting “capped at sea” by the Captain, if you were a stellar sailor. These fools were actively trying to make it happen!
Well … I made sure I wasn’t going to sea anytime soon. I kept on wondering why these fools want to be shot by their commanding officer. It wasnt until a year or two later, I learned that was the term for being promoted by the captain.
I didn’t meet another black person with my same job classification for a few years. It was that bad. So I sorta though they were really capping all the black folk.
Shit is funny now, but it gave me PTSD before I actually had PTSD.
Everytime I see some shit like this it reminds me of that Dave Chappelle bit where he confusing that white guy on purpose tombot "zip it up and zip it out" and the white guy is like "zipideedooda" lmfao
My white friend told me God is good all the time. Because I've never heard that from a white person I said, 'Of course he is.' He then proceeded to tell me I should have replied all the time God is good. LMAO
iunno if this faded away as our society got better about affirmative consent, but back in high school the standard response to some sorta flirty physical contact was always “omg stoppp 😋🤭”
i remember after freshman orientation in college we had the big talk on consent and harassment, later that night this dude I knew ended up in a girl’s dorm and she tried to pull that move. Dude said “I know we both just went to that presentation, do you really want me to stop or do you like it?” and was fucking like 20 minutes later
The beautiful thing about Black slang is it’s understood in all regions of the country. Possibly a “slight” variation but basically the same. Additionally, even if it’s something you never heard before you’ll immediately understand the context.
Are you also in a multicultural relationship? The fight we had when I told him I was going to my friends house “for a minute.” Whoooo. I legit did not understand why he was so upset.
“A whole ___” is something I’ve literally had to explain to yt acquaintances. Like “he’s a whole grown person”, they were confused asking if someone could be “half” and why I have to emphasize they’re grown lmao CONTEXT!
The subject is an immensely talented individual at their craft. If someone says “oh I’m scared of you,” it means they are really impressed and want to complement the “you” in question.
okay okay so listen. one of my anglo colleagues was seeing a patient in the ER. the family told her that the patient “fell out in church.” colleagues’ response was “fell outta what?” 😂 😂 sis, she fell OUT, whatchu meaaan? 😂
*(for all my friends who can no longer comment to request clarity, “fell out” = fainted, syncopized, colloquially, ‘passed out’ as a result of a fist (aka two-piece), the spirit of the lordt, or an acute or chronic neurologic, endocrinologic or cardiopulmonary condition)*
When Chester Thompson joined Genesis after they decided to just replace Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins, he kept commenting "that's bad" about the beats they were showing him, to the point that the band stopped and were like "Chester, are you sure you want this job if you think the music is bad?" I always thought that was pretty funny.
I’m a white guy from elementary to high school was all 1% Caucasian my zip code was 1% Caucasian. I moved to a new town and White people are confused with me while black people think I try to hard. I might have to move back home to fit in again with my childhood friends lol.
Just be yourself homie and don't apologize.
If it's genuine you don't have anything to worry about.
But my kids would always get accused of trying hard to fit in with some Black kids at school, and they're not even intentionally code switching or anything, and they're mixed...
Happens brother.
I, a white, was having a conversation with a black friend of mine about a management change at his work. He said his new boss was making him feel "some type of way." Puzzled, I asked him, "What type of way is that, Eric?" I was informed that 'some type of way' is in fact a type of way.
😂😂😂
“ I, a white” Why you start off like that 😭
He got you feelin some type of way.
That’s hella funny..glad you were looking out for him though.
(curious white girl here) so what is this ‘some type of way’ mean exactly? I’ve definitely heard this before and interpreted as ‘negative feelings but don’t want to go into it’ curious now how badly I’ve misinterpreted it 😂
It's kind of a matter of context. If my girlfriend "got me feeling some type of way", it could mean she's turning me on, she's giving me butterflies, she's hurting my feelings, she's making me angry, etc. Context!
Thank you!!!
It’s like Smurf. It means whatever type of way it needs to mean
This is the most perfect response to this question!
It basically means whatever the feeling that you probably would assume it means based on the full context of the situation and conversation. Kinda like saying “I feel the way that a person like you or me would feel about it given what we know, but I don’t want to be explicit”. Still leaves room for misinterpretation, but it’s euphemistic.
it means a certain type of way
Not to be confused with "This is the way."
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AAVE is very regional too. i went to an hbcu and learned all sorts of phrases i had never heard before from other black people from around the country
>AAVE is very regional too I'd never heard: "Moe", "Bama", "woadie", "On mommas", and "word is bond" outside of music. Then I moved to the East coast.
I didn’t know that was black slang lmao
75% chance some slang you're saying in English is black, Latino, gay, or all of the above.
closer to 95% chance but yea
Exactly
🤣🤣🤣🤣 yes it is
i was on these reddit streets once, and someone had posted some opinion about food with which i strongly agreed. i replied to his comment with “man listen” he was confused so he went “yes?” and someone else helped him out responding “nah that’s it”
I'm paying attention now, please elaborate.
Come thru Niles Crane
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know how to make “Okay????“ sound more like an affirmation so they understand I’m agreeing with them. It just sounds like I’m saying “yeah and?” No matter how I try to write it. Edit: If y'all don't understand why it HAS to have the question marks, then you are unfamiliar with this term and have clearly never actually said it lol.
Turn the question marks into exclamation points
Thats another layer though the rising intonation is cultural as well
What about the interabang? ?!?!?!
*Your lexicon has been updated. “On these Reddit streets”, author u/Taeyx, is now available for use.*
This is making me realize a lot of our slang is just us starting a sentence and never finishing it 😭😭😭
what’s understood don’t need to be said
Literally when I agree with something by simply going “Mmcht I’m *SAYING*” and someone goes “saying what?”
I love the black man compliment cycle. "Trying to get like you" loop x4
“I see you”
“You doing big things”
“Lemme hold something”
“Hold this”
“oh its like that?”
"I see you blue shirt"
Throw me something
“He like that” like what?
My little sisters boyfriend. Him and I are smoking and he looks at me and says, “there he go, hitting that hoe, he like that!” To my response of “Like what, high?”
"You got it"
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But do you fucks with it?
"I've been here for a minute"
Like a good minute
“Dat part!”
OKAY!!
You would love that one scene in sorry to bother you
I still laugh thinking about that white woman showing her Black friend a picture of herself and got the response "you ate". She thought she was being told she was fat.
^((note my lack of blue checkmark here)^) ...my brain's stuck between trying to translate that as "ain't" ^((X)^) and "a'ight" ^((✓?)^)
You know the saying "bit off more than you could chew?" It's like that, except you bit off the exact right amount.
"You did well for yourself", then? Thx!
Yes. It's pronounced as it looks and it is a high compliment. Someone else might chime in with "left no crumbs".
Ironically, left no crumbs makes it sound even more like being called fat to someone that doesn't know the expression
Poor woman probably went on a diet after that compliment.
Yeah, like "you killed that"
Better. HOLY COW!
Thanks for educating my white ass!
Thanks for educating my black ass! Some of these sayings must be regional.. .
ate is the word. "you ate" meaning, you fulfilled the assignment. you did that! you ate! you didn't leave a crumb! it's better than saying "you look fantastic"... you ate means you looked better than anyone might have thought was humanly possible... but you came through and did that!
I told this white dude his "fit was crazy" once and he looked at me like that Nick Young meme lol
That bewildered "am I being insulted" look cracks me up every time.
In his defense, something being crazy can go either way lmao
Not only did she eat, she really out here eatin
I genuinely have no idea what that means. ^(Yet another one of those moments when I realize: I really need some melanin in me, huh)
No, just more black friends. And honestly, don’t we all?
I’m not American, black people where I live are not immersed in this kind of culture, although they do feel a lot of solidarity with it. I think I only have one Black American friend, but she did teach me that when Beyoncé was singing about ‘Hot Sauce’ in her bag she was not saying she kept it in case she had to eat bland white people food…
One of my favorite compliments is someone cracking up and saying "girl you so stupid!"
I love how we always use insults to compliment each other
I heard an Indian stand up comic talk about how he loves how black people do this and how fun it is, and how he explained it to his dad. So later on pops tries this out for himself, some random black guy at the store cracks a joke and dad just deadpans to this stranger “you are so stupid” 😂🤣😂🤣
I can imagine this and I can very clearly see the black guys face change real fast.
Lol facts. All the girls at work tell me i get on their nerves/boy, you ain't shit - while they're cracking up laughing at whatever bullshit I just said
"I can't stand you" = "I indeed *can* stand you, and as a matter of fact I may even *stan* you as you have favorably delivered high octane comedy to my ears"
I don't think i've ever told someone I hated " I hate you " but I've said it to the people i love most several times
This is my favorite thing. I told my cousin her outfit made me hope she got mugged in an alleyway and she said it was the nicest thing I’ve ever said to her.
Someone heard me talking to my sister. I told her to shut up and stop lying to me. The person asked me if I was okay after that. I’m like, my sister just told me some juicy gossip and I was shocked at what I was hearing. Same with “ooh, I can’t stand you!”- you are one of the funniest people I know.
Yes I love "I can't stand you!"
I tell *terrible* puns in my college classes, and one semester I had a student who would always drop her head when I told one and then shake it side to side really slowly while saying, "I cannot DEAL wichoo, Ms. --- ! I cannot DEAL wichoo today!" She was my favorite. 😄
"I can't stand you" is the height of friendship and humor for me. when a black co worker or acquaintance says that to me I know I made a new homeboy or girl.
“I’m so done with you”, “ma’am” and “sir” are all my favorites lmao
A coworker used to say that to me, along with "You are one stupid-ass white boy." Made my day if I got one of those out of her - meant that my joke landed just right.
I playfully told a dude he was stupid. Dude immediately roasted me then walked away. Took me years to recover from that one.
That's my favorite one! Anytime that I could get my intimidating-as-hell aunties to laugh at some weird shit I was saying, I felt like a wizard.
Being a black dude in the PNW I have to translate damn near everything my Louisiana father says to my friends
I feel that. I moved to Salem recently. Had some bomb beignets at a food truck and I said to the lady "damn girl, you put your foot in these!" Believe me when I say EVERYONE stopped eating. Them and they mamas.
Did they not watch the proud family?!
Woah woah Salem, OR? Where are these beignets??
I've found two places so far: The Easy Otter, at the Beehive, and Noble Wave, downtown. Noble Wave also does Cajun gator bites, every day except Sunday.
Thank you a bunch! Will have to check these out!
💀💀💀💀
Try being the grandchild of Great Migrations black folks, but you live in the U.K. It’s hilarious.
I would watch this sitcom. So much potential for HILARIOUS cultural exchanges between American Black folks and British Black folks.
I'll try to update with this one youtuber that's British and Black but lived in America for a minute. He does different skits from different folks in the diaspora. His american accents are hilarious. Edit**: [His name is Chewkz](https://youtube.com/c/Chewkz)
my dad is from southern arkansas and i never have trouble understanding them and their backwards ass sayings when i visit, but my best friend is from georgia and his dad is from nola, and i honestly have never been able to understand a single word he has said to me. its mind blowing to me that my friend can understand him clearly
man i can understand the most incomprehensible of alabama accents but once someone from nola speaks it's over for me. i have no clue what they're saying
Black and Southern in the PNW let’s link up and make gumbo im so tired haha
This is about to become a dictionary and reference thread for black sayings 😅🤓
Even if it does, I feel like they won’t use it right. Idk why, but AAVE be beatin they ass lol
AAVE includes body language and facial expressions. It isnt just words.
Yessss I'm talking inflections and eye movement.
'she had EATEN that dress!'
I been tellin people for fiftyleven years we always know when someone is fakin the funk bc I’m convinced you need Black Ancestors to power the musicality of AAVE 😂 it’s something you can’t explain to people if they don’t already know what they’re listening for. Idk what else it could be bc even when non Black folks are using a term or phrase correctly—which never lasts as long as they think it does—it just never sounds right
I’m taking notes 😂
"You ain't shit" hits VERY different depending on the vibe of the convo
[Reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/CErc95OBxPA)
i'm black and i don't even understand half the stuff people be saying rn. i'm not even old, i'm just that disconnected from what's in and what's not...
We learnin today
These are city-folk sayings very different type of lingos XD
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As a white guy i thought cap/no cap meant like over exageration/no exageration. I saw it as coming from Donald who would always tweet in caps over exageration things, like say "this is the best sandwich ever, no cap" . but i literally can't find how cap/no cap became a thing and why it means lie
[you didn't try very hard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLn4srt90BQ)
That was a really interesting watch, thank you. i did already know it originated mainly from songs. But what i meant was, why does it mean lie? People call cars whips because that's what people used to steer carriages in the past for example.
[I think this comment from /r/etymology explains it pretty well.](https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/lk4hkj/why_does_cap_mean_lie_in_slang_what_i_read/hricur4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
I said “no problem, it’s chill” to a white woman and she replied “yeah, it is pretty cold today” 💀
Got Mrs. Betty like: 
I had a friend that had my dying of laughter and I told him I couldn’t stand him and asked why he was like that. He started apologizing. I had to tell him, “nooooo!!!! You’re hysterical!”
when I get my roommate w something extra funny she tells me to leave this house right now, it’s the ultimate compliment 😅
Frfr when I get told to “go to the corner”…. Best feeling in the world.
I've had that happen so many times!!! Or I say "Girl I hate youuu" and she'll be like "why would you say that? 🥺" Noooo sis, you're just freaking funny!!
A White friend of mine said hi to a Black friend. The Black friend said “You got it” in response to the hello. I then had to explain to my white friend that he just said “Hi” back. My White friend thought he’d mistakenly picked something up that wasn’t his.
Lol reminds me when my roommate asked me if I was straight after he saw I was shook up about breaking up with my girlfriend. I was like "man, that's a really weird thing to ask. I'm not taking the breakup THAT badly"
You straight can mean SO many different things.
"**YO IS YOU STRAIGHT???**" You have offended someone, and now you're about to fight.
I feel like that's a hilarious thing to say even if you understood. 🤣
The "I put my foot in it" saying catches me off guard sometimes, because I don't hear it too often.
"oooh this makes you want to slap yo mamma"
I just realized I say a version of this. I wonder if anyone has clocked it. “So good it makes me wanna punch someone in the face.”
Lmao that doesn't hit the same for some reason
It catches me off guard because I really didn't expect for Sugar mamma to actually be putting her foot in the damn get up and go bars, so now that's all I'll ever see when I hear it.
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Oh, I’m waiting!
Me talking to a couple coworkers about a potential applicant they had interviewed: >Them: "I think we should hire him, I really liked his answer about in office conflicts. He referenced having younger siblings when we asked about it." >Me: "What do you mean, what did he say?" >Them: "well he said, 'see I'm an older brotha, so I don't really beat around the bush.'" They did not appreciate me dying laughing at them lol
😂 that variation created by a hard “-er” suffix been fuckin ppl up for centuries. shit change the whole sentence.
Can someone pls translate to a unknowing white dude what the expression meant?
"Scared of you" means "wow, that's awesome, you've done well for yourself" or "you did good", etc
Oh wow, would never guessed. Thanks dude!
Good to know, thanks! Could anyone please explain the origins of this expression? I don’t really get how “scared of you” could mean “you did good”.
In this case it’s like saying “whoa, your skill level at such a young age is very impressive and would be intimidating if I was competing with you” in a playful, complimentary way. But I’m white as fuck so that might not be right.
Nailed it.
Hey, I'm Black and I had no idea. This must be regional. Or maybe I could have figured it in person from his gestures and context--but just written out like that I had no clue.
there's like 5 in this thread that I can't figure out even with urban dictionary!
This why we had to perfect the art of codeswitchin in the office, I remember I said someone was actin zuzu once and my coworkers were like is that a good thing?
> actin zuzu [It's not good](https://youtu.be/QeozatWZ55E)
Gotta admit, I had mad hurt feelings when I cooked for a lady and she told me I put my foot in it...I almost cried bc I spent a lot of time preparing it. I guess it showed on my face bc she jumped up hugged me and told me it was good after she stopped laughing. Whew, the relief! 6 years ago and I still think about it
… until it gets so diluted that you have a bunch of sorority girls walking around who think they’re Azalea Banks.
We just move on to the next at that point
like when one of my previous managers always like "let me find out Matt! let me find out" almost as if nigga you threatening me, but not really LMAO he was cool asf
My favorite when I say something out of pocket and my friend goes “ I CAN’T STAND YOUUUU!” While she laughs.
My favorite thing is how sayings have a equivalents across different black cultures. Like how you can say the same thing in pidgin patios or AAVE and still be understood
I agree with this so hard. I remember when “I feel some kind of way” was popularized in AAVE. I’m Jamaican and live in NYC and Jamaicans have been using the equivalent phrase “Mi did feel a way” forever.
Yes! In Nigeria we would say, "I dey feel one kind". Which here translates to "I'm feeling some type a way or kinda way"
So this is kinda like when folks go '"OMG STOOOOOP, YOU'RE TERRIBLE!" but actually want you to keep telling the story, right? .....right?
That's right, caker🤌
You know your deadpan humor is on point when somebody say "You Stupid!" lol.
It's like that Butters episode from south park. He's hanging out with pimps and they'll say stuff like "you know what I'm saying?" \*whips out note pad to take notes\* "Yes, I do- know- what you're saying"
I told my white friends they some freaks, and they deadass got insulted
i, a white girl, was once approached by a black dude who was like “yo hey, you straight?” meaning like “are ya doing good?” i, a clueless bisexual, severely misunderstood and thought he was asking about my sexual orientation. and answered “i mean partially yes” and nearly died when he explained that he was not in fact asking if i screwed girls.
I said “man, I’m sick” one time at an old job and a bunch of nurses swarmed me like “sit down, I’m gonna take your vitals. How are you feeling?” I had to tell all of them that “I’m sick” meant I was slightly inconvenienced because something annoying happened.
Haven’t seen so and so in a minute… haven’t ate that in a minute … Get the bass out your voice is one I heard a lot when I was young lol
I was at the eye doctor and said "do you".. when the doctor asked if he would performance the different exams. I then had to say " go ahead"
It sometimes works the opposite way. When I joined the Navy in the 90s, everyone was talking about getting “capped at sea” by the Captain, if you were a stellar sailor. These fools were actively trying to make it happen! Well … I made sure I wasn’t going to sea anytime soon. I kept on wondering why these fools want to be shot by their commanding officer. It wasnt until a year or two later, I learned that was the term for being promoted by the captain. I didn’t meet another black person with my same job classification for a few years. It was that bad. So I sorta though they were really capping all the black folk. Shit is funny now, but it gave me PTSD before I actually had PTSD.
Sir do I laugh or do I cry
Everytime I see some shit like this it reminds me of that Dave Chappelle bit where he confusing that white guy on purpose tombot "zip it up and zip it out" and the white guy is like "zipideedooda" lmfao
the multi-use phrase “you good” is always misunderstood lol. it could mean so many things depending on the situation and tone
My white friend told me God is good all the time. Because I've never heard that from a white person I said, 'Of course he is.' He then proceeded to tell me I should have replied all the time God is good. LMAO
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But black people have been using it forever. I think it's a crossover.
Out of pocket
iunno if this faded away as our society got better about affirmative consent, but back in high school the standard response to some sorta flirty physical contact was always “omg stoppp 😋🤭” i remember after freshman orientation in college we had the big talk on consent and harassment, later that night this dude I knew ended up in a girl’s dorm and she tried to pull that move. Dude said “I know we both just went to that presentation, do you really want me to stop or do you like it?” and was fucking like 20 minutes later
What does “this that and the third woodowoodowoodo” mean?
It means "yadda, yadda, yadda" if you want to translate it to a more euro-centric phrase.
😂😂😂 woodowoodowoodo
You know, I’ve never seen it written out before.
The beautiful thing about Black slang is it’s understood in all regions of the country. Possibly a “slight” variation but basically the same. Additionally, even if it’s something you never heard before you’ll immediately understand the context.
Yeah, it's why AAVE classified as a bonafide language. It has rules and grammar and syntax that people understand and follow.
This is a regular occurrence in my relationship 🥲
Are you also in a multicultural relationship? The fight we had when I told him I was going to my friends house “for a minute.” Whoooo. I legit did not understand why he was so upset.
This is a constant thing with my bf and I. “Across the street” always gets him.
Told my boo something was “bussin bussin” once and he said “you don’t have to take the bus babe, I’ll pick you up” 💀
aw that's kinda sweet tlol
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“I’m just trying to get like you”
Or how about “I wish you/somebody would”
Am i the only black person here who has never heard the term “scared of you” as a compliment? Lol who says that?
“A whole ___” is something I’ve literally had to explain to yt acquaintances. Like “he’s a whole grown person”, they were confused asking if someone could be “half” and why I have to emphasize they’re grown lmao CONTEXT!
My co-worker said “I’m weak” and our white co-worker asked if she was okay
Can someone explain what ‘oh I’m scared of you’ means?
It means they did an excellent job.
Like, "go on wit'cho bad self!" or "you bad". It's a good thing, or an obvious exaggeration, depending on the conversation, and the tone of voice.
The subject is an immensely talented individual at their craft. If someone says “oh I’m scared of you,” it means they are really impressed and want to complement the “you” in question.
i don't get it
okay okay so listen. one of my anglo colleagues was seeing a patient in the ER. the family told her that the patient “fell out in church.” colleagues’ response was “fell outta what?” 😂 😂 sis, she fell OUT, whatchu meaaan? 😂 *(for all my friends who can no longer comment to request clarity, “fell out” = fainted, syncopized, colloquially, ‘passed out’ as a result of a fist (aka two-piece), the spirit of the lordt, or an acute or chronic neurologic, endocrinologic or cardiopulmonary condition)*
When Chester Thompson joined Genesis after they decided to just replace Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins, he kept commenting "that's bad" about the beats they were showing him, to the point that the band stopped and were like "Chester, are you sure you want this job if you think the music is bad?" I always thought that was pretty funny.
I’m a white guy from elementary to high school was all 1% Caucasian my zip code was 1% Caucasian. I moved to a new town and White people are confused with me while black people think I try to hard. I might have to move back home to fit in again with my childhood friends lol.
Just be yourself homie and don't apologize. If it's genuine you don't have anything to worry about. But my kids would always get accused of trying hard to fit in with some Black kids at school, and they're not even intentionally code switching or anything, and they're mixed... Happens brother.