Not sure when it happened that teenage boys started calling each other "nigga" all the time, but it's gotten dirt common. And this is, like, independent of race, so you hear it from and to white kids, black kids, brown kids. This is better than one group hurling it as a weapon - which obviously still happens - but the whole unthinking nature of it has some serious downsides. That kind of thing is all well and good with everyone until it's not.
Plus, job interviews. I don't think "Nigga just look at my résumé" is going to fly.
Plus, job interviews. I don't think "Nigga just look at my résumé" is going to fly.
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It seems to us there's been a general tendency to lower standards in written as well as spoken communication. I can't recall if one of us sent you a link to this page previously..
Interesting link, and kind of a fun challenge in interpreting each sentence. Although pidgin isn't just bad English. By some counts pidgins are new, distinct languages. Or dialects at least.
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