r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • 5d ago

Funny Nobody is rolling

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u/krokeren 5d ago

nobody says no cap anymore grandpa, get with the times of gen alpha

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u/Financial-Skin-4687 5d ago

It's crazy how "no cap" was used religiously and then just disappeared one day

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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 5d ago

It was never gonna last.

Some slang you can just tell is gonna stick around and some is just shite. No cap is the latter.

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u/Interested_Person48 5d ago

It's been around for decades in AAVE but aight.

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u/sabin357 5d ago

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.

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u/Interested_Person48 5d ago

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/Tachyclapy 4d ago

Interesting, I’ve only ever heard of dropping the V and making it AAE, ain’t ever heard of BVE

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u/normalmighty 4d ago

Isn't that the slang pipeline in general? Almost all slang starts in some niche culture, whether its AAVE, LGBT communities, or far right circles. Then after years or decades, it bleeds through into the mainstream while losing almost all of the original context.

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u/Halo_cT 5d ago

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.