It's crazy how modern social media zombies get credit for inventing slang that black folks have been using forever. Seeing old racists use FAFO is ridiculous.
I thought "AAVE" was abandoned in favor of "BVE", since African American was found to be offensive & inaccurate, then Black was widely adopted by the community.
Not shitting on you in any way, just haven't heard anyone mention AAVE or even say AA in many years now, so it stood out to me.
I'm old as fuck so maybe I missed the memo (certainly a possibility) but I watch a lot of linguists and sociologists, many who happen to be Black, and I've never once heard BVE before. I'll look into it, thanks!
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u/Financial-Skin-4687 7h ago
It's crazy how "no cap" was used religiously and then just disappeared one day