On 10/16/2015 01:33 PM, Chris Prata via KRnet wrote:
> However, I as a rule, dont use words that originated from "da street" within
> recent memory, as this word has. I'm sure I use many words that started in
> "da hood" many generations ago and we'd never know it.
The English language is
now use it sometimes.
I think that "dis" is still in that emergent twilight of a new word coming from
the streets, now making mainstream. That said, I dont use it. So, I must have
become a square like my parents. (And Richard Nixon!)
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> Date: Fri, 16 O
On 10/16/2015 01:09 PM, Mike Stirewalt via KRnet wrote:
> I think right this moment I'm responding to the use of a street word.
I apologize, and meant no offense. It is a commonly used word around
here, and not intended to be vulgar at all. Essentially, "dissing" is
synonymous with
When my brain hears the word dis or dissing it associates it with other
words which have currency in places and among people I don't cross paths
with so my brain shuts off, kind of like the way I stop breathing when
I'm around somebody smoking cigarettes.
I've lost track completely of this
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