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“Now how many of y’all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don’t matter… of course unless they are trash for Biden & great for Trump!”

Who speaks like this?

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[–] tipicaldik 104 points 9 months ago (4 children)

10 bucks says that as soon as her political career goes tit's-up, she goes tit's-out on OF...

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think she starts with the pundit route first, taking on less and less prestigious media outlets.

Then she releases a sex tape and tries to build a reality TV career.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 24 points 9 months ago

Fuck this is so mired in reality it's depressing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is that the palin route? Or was it just sex tapes by actresses parodying her?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Palin had a porn star that looked close enough to her, so she never had a sex tape.

But yeah, it is somewhat similar to Palin

[–] postmateDumbass 3 points 9 months ago

Starts on a public speaking tour, ends up touring as a feature dancer at Deja Vus across the nation.

[–] partial_accumen 18 points 9 months ago

While it would be better for America if she never held office again, she's still young as far as a career politics and clearly shopping for power wherever she can find it. I'm guessing she'll try for smaller office somewhere. City Council maybe Mayor of some really red small city.

[–] hightrix 16 points 9 months ago

That’s not even a gamble. That’s almost guaranteed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Her old sugar daddy meet profile will get put back up.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

She’s usually really good on poles, what’s the problem?

[–] Everythingispenguins 7 points 9 months ago

Wrong type of pole

[–] ickplant 7 points 9 months ago

She clearly didn’t vape enough.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Who speaks like this?

That's your main take-away from this article? Criticizing an African-American for using some African-American Vernacular English?

[–] newthrowaway20 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't even call that African American vernacular. The only word I see there that looks strange is 'y'all' and that's more like Southern vernacular. This is tame stuff as far as language goes.

[–] givesomefucks 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Nah, we're taking y'all back as a gender neutral replacement for "you guys"

I use it in a professional setting now even.

Strangely, it keeps everyone happy, no one has ever object to y'all and it's grammatically perfect.

[–] orclev 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It's actually a significant flaw in English that there's no generally accepted 2nd person plural pronoun. There's probably another language in the same boat but I'm not aware of one personally.

Currently in the running are:

  • Y'all (favored in the south)
  • Yous (favored in the north, particularly the northeast)
  • And the somewhat awkward "you all", the only one that's officially correct

For anyone who speaks a language other than English the missing pronoun is a pretty glaring thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] hydrospanner 3 points 9 months ago

You shut your whore mouth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My wife and I have been learning more German and it has 'euch' which is analogous to y'all. It took me a while to get that one worked out because it's baked into the language instead of being a kind of slang hack for what English is missing.

[–] orclev 7 points 9 months ago

One thing I see a lot with language charts is they'll translate it as "you" or if you're lucky "you (plural)", which can be really confusing. I actually had one teacher that just straight up translated it as "y'all", which was both funny and enlightening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Funny that such a trivial word gave y'all such a fight.

Ich wünsche euch alles Gute auf eurem weiteren Weg zum Meistern der deutschen Sprache 💖

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Then there's this... Used to live in Florence so Y'all is pretty normal around there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y%27all_Water_Tower

[–] Gumbyyy 3 points 9 months ago

There's also "you guys" if you use "guys" as gender-neutral, since there's no particularly good feminine version of "guys". There's just "gals", which sounds incredibly old fashioned, or "girls", which sounds totally condescending when talking about adult women, or maybe "ladies".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ireland uses 'ye'. There are multiple Hibernian English phrases or words that are just direct translations from Irish, which has second person plural, although the grammatical structure is different.

In Dublin, they often use 'youse', but it's more slang than accepted. Ye is still seen as not entirely correct but is commonplace enough in everyday speech to be more than slang.

[–] givesomefucks 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

English is a terrible language, and I say that as a native speaker.

It's a language from an isolated island that only the lower class spoke for centuries. For generations English royalty didn't even speak English.

So the commoners just did whatever they wanted with it.

It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It why we use English words for livestock, but when someone eats it, we use French.

The people who could speak English were the ones raising the animals, not eating them.

This is amusing but I'm not sure it's accurate. Even in French (or other Latin languages) the words differ.

Vache = Boeuf
Cochon = Porc
Poule = Poulet (as in English, chicken is the same)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see some stickers sometimes that says "Ya'll means you all" and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I just say 'you people' and hope for the best. So far it's been disastrous!

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

come on, the Scottish/north english "yous" is better than Y'all, and yous cant deny it!

[–] bitwaba 3 points 9 months ago

Yes wes can

[–] candybrie 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Bobo gonna try" I think the main part that falls into AAVE. A more standard English form would be like, "Bobo is gonna try." But AAVE will often drop the auxiliary verbs from phrases. Another example would be "I seen you" instead of "I've seen you."

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[–] fox2263 36 points 9 months ago

I’m sure it’s not her first embarrassing finish.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Useful idiot discovers she's not useful anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

She is still an idiot,though.

[–] RestrictedAccount 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Do you think that now she would finally be embarrassed?

I don’t Think that If having someone Grab her boobs while she rubs his crotch in a crowded theater and seeing it on national television didn’t do it, nothing will.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

People like her and MTG and Trump don't have empathy and are incapable of feeling shame.

[–] Cosmonauticus 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Funny thing is I don't think its that bad. Its just the hypocrisy and crazy shit she does and says that makes it so much worse

[–] someguy3 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So if she loses the primary for that seat, is she allowed to run in another district? Or is it too late at that point?

[–] DigitalTraveler42 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Most likely too late, but rules don't matter for GOP folks apparently so who knows.

[–] millifoo 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Only 117 votes total?

If the GOP wants, they can swoop in and pay a small number of people to vote her to the top. Mind you, I don't know that the GOP actually wants her to continue on the national stage?

[–] HootinNHollerin 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s a pretty impressive number of HJs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bobo, that's sort of an insult to the other chimps out there. They at least are smart enough to stay out of congress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Maybe it's because I'm a Chicago kid. I've tended to use Bobo too as short for Bobo the clown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know she's absolutely terrible... But I still kinda want to fuck her. Does that make me a bad person?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No, I would too. I have a thing for assholes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is comedy gold.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Who's (OP) disconnected concern is for grammar instead of the content of the article?

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