Mystified by woke jargon? Too dumb to figure it out yourself? Asked around only to be told "it's not my job to educate you"?

Worry no more, cause we got a handy guide.

A

• ally: not an ally, someone who likes to watch and masturbate, a creep.
• accountability: licence to harass the powerless and empty promises to harass the powerful.
• AAVE: a less Ebonic-sounding term for Ebonics, preferred by WAAVE speakers (Woke Asshole's Acronymic Vernacular English)

B

• BIPOC: lit. the black and indigenous people of POC people, gold standard, best of the best, cream of the crop.

C

• Communist: a super-liberal supporter of Bashar al-Assad.
• consent: relentless, sexy innovation in the field of contract law.

D

• decolonize: like the Bandung Conference but from the privacy of your phone. Melts in your mouth. There's an app for that.

F

• Fascism: free speech
• Fascist: socially moderate/progressive, fiscally progressive/socialist.

G

• garbage person: a normie (not to be confused with "normie" in woke slang)
• gender: something can't have any definable characteristics, yet must be held in high regard (like the holy ghost but not really).

I

• intersectionality: a vaccine against socialism, made mandatory for all leftists in 2016.

L

• leftism: an umbrella "ideology" with no definable goals or standards, except opposition to all hierarchies (with the exception of those that are defended by armies). Formerly a slur, "leftism" was reappropriated in 2016 following the merger of "socialism","intersectionality" and "progressive policy."
• liberal feminist: a liberal feminist who doesn't pretend to pretend to be a Marxist.
• liberal: a liberal who doesn't pretend to be an anarchist, uncool, as in "shut the fuck up, liberal."
• lived experience: some boring bougie early life bullshit that ties into "leftism," somehow.

M

• microaggression: a small infraction that doesn't really matter but could be used as pretext to assert authority and control (similar to "broken windows policing")

N

• normie: a commoner with strict super-liberal political beliefs, a twitter account, and a liberal arts degree from a private school. Example: “Your edgelord class-first rhetoric alienates the normies. Most people can’t spend all day poring over century old socialist texts.”
• non-men: non-"TERFy" term generally reserved for people with ovaries.

P

• piece of shit: a person with a

Though I would share some interesting resources on Thieves Cant for the roguishly inclined. This is an actual way of communicating which exists both as pictographs (assuming a number of it's users were illiterate) as well as orally. I find the rhyming slang the most interesting and is still very common in parts of Britain as well as Australia; as someone in remote Australian I can say we recognize, if not use, a lot of rhyming slang in conversation. Using some basic rhyming schemes it would be easy enough to add a bit of spice to dialogue and role playing opportunities.

Below are some links to the original sources:

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860) by John Camden Hotten link: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmode00hottiala/page/n5

Vocabulum; or, The rogue's lexicon. Comp. from the most authentic sources (1859) by George Washington Matsell, . Dictionary of Terms: https://archive.org/details/cu31924073798740/page/n15

Comic relief- The Delhi's School of Linguistics take on Australian Ryming Slang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUhBRlXC8LY

Everything from 23 skidoo to flossin to hyphy, most of the online references seem to be unsourced or in disagreement. Is there a decent reference anywhere to the origins of urban slang? TIA

Found an interesting article that linked to a study y'all might find intetesting:

Link to study: [PDF download]

Link to pop article: Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

>A paper from computer scientists from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found that machines were more likely to flag tweets from black people than white people as offensive. It all boils down to the subtle differences in language. African-American English (AAE), often spoken in urban communities, is peppered with racial slang and profanities.

Good chance of getting the runner-up too.

Hey guys. We had to purchase this dictionary for class however after an hour of using it, I still dont understand. Even when looking up something like 留 is difficult because I dont know where to start at the top or bottom. I read the back that explains but still doesnt make much sense.

Thank you very much

Any resources online to show me how to use this? I've read the help and still dont understand how to look something up like 留. Do you look at the compound at the top or bottom? There are literally no videos on YouTube that are helpful. Much thanks

I was wondering because recently I restarted my English course and the teacher told me to find someone to speak English with, but I wanted to talk to real English speakers, sort of a learning experience where mistakes and questions are allowed, anyone knows a server like that ?

Take like 1 minute to help settle another random debate between my friends. There is some demographic stuff at the end for some fun comparisons and you can be sure I'll share the results! Thanks

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