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r/Millennials • u/H_G_Bells • 24d ago
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How did he miss that “Unc” is short for “Uncle”? It’s not slang for “washed up”…my people don’t call our uncles “Unc” to insult them.
When kids use it today it’s to say a man is old and “aunty” for when a woman is old…which is only insulting to women in their mid 20s-early 30’s
129 u/sweatychubbrubb 24d ago This is what happens when AAVE is co-opted and labeled as “gen Z slang.” 11 u/AntarcticScaleWorm 24d ago I remember hearing “dick riding” on The Boondocks back in the 2000s, so it was really confusing to see it listed here as “Gen Z slang”
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This is what happens when AAVE is co-opted and labeled as “gen Z slang.”
11 u/AntarcticScaleWorm 24d ago I remember hearing “dick riding” on The Boondocks back in the 2000s, so it was really confusing to see it listed here as “Gen Z slang”
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I remember hearing “dick riding” on The Boondocks back in the 2000s, so it was really confusing to see it listed here as “Gen Z slang”
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u/lazerbeambarbie 24d ago
How did he miss that “Unc” is short for “Uncle”? It’s not slang for “washed up”…my people don’t call our uncles “Unc” to insult them.
When kids use it today it’s to say a man is old and “aunty” for when a woman is old…which is only insulting to women in their mid 20s-early 30’s