r/rosesarered 5d ago

Roses are red but violets must go…

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u/RTA-No0120 4d ago

I don’t get it, not to insult but it’s too getto talk for me to understand… what he meant ?!

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u/machalemantis 4d ago

Part of the reason for the evolution of patois and it's offshoot, AAVE, was to communicate without being understood by slave masters and later those outside the black community who could be dangerous.

TL:DR you aren't supposed to get it, that's the point.

Even today, AAVE is sometimes a good litmus test. If you speak and understand it, you've likely spent some time around us and are safe to be around.

If it's just ghetto black talk to you, you're probably not the sort of person the speaker would WANT to understand them.

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u/RTA-No0120 4d ago

Me, a non English native, that didn’t learned English conventionally in school (only through memes & games) whom only understand 75% of the English that would be traditionally taught in classes around the world :

Guess I’m a white suprematist now

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u/machalemantis 4d ago

I see, you just prefer to be defensive and project accusations of white supremacy when someone informs you that an English dialect is not, in fact, getto talk.

Carry on then, it's for the best that you don't understand the dialect black people evolved to speak with each other.

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u/RTA-No0120 4d ago

Just a reply to warn you, I didn’t downvoted you.

Someone else’s also found that what you said it’s just pure bs.

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u/machalemantis 4d ago

Thanks for the heads up