The Wretched of the Earth: My favorite AAVE phrase/ function

sourcedumal:

hardhatpartycat:

saneoldsameold:

is the classic ‘DAMN self’ phrase omg

Like

‘I bought this house by my DAMN self, I don’t owe you anything!’

‘I figured it out my DAMN self!’

‘You better buy that shit your DAMN self! I’m not buying that!’

I always imagine the hen…

(Source: writingrhythmandretail)

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   Oh my gooooood. I’m so glad I wasn’t the only little black child that interpreted the story that way lol

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   ^ i love this i think i honestly say that when i tell the story of the little red hen, she did do all that shit her damn...

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   I do the “-ass” suffix so DAMN much, I swear tah God.

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    due to the white folk taking and misusing the word “bougie”, i’ve now switched exclusively to “saddity”

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    siddity is new to me and I like -assisms a little too well some days

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    My favorites are triflin and bougie. I’ve always wanted to call someone a triflin ass nigga, but the opportunity hasn’t...

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    Yup, ‘da fuq i look like?’ is one of my fav’s too. Along with that is ‘shawty’, that word is everything.

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    you got me fuck up/the fuck I look like. the latter is fairly new but still vital to my vocabulary.

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    And even when it’s spelled differently, or we don’t all use it regularly, we mostly still get it. We were discussing...

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    Oh wait, I forgot, ” You’re mom.” Followed by, “fighting words.” and” you got jokes.” …..hopefully in that order lol

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    i love all of this…

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