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Thread #105290   Message #2167540
Posted By: Azizi
09-Oct-07 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gay Terminology
Subject: RE: BS: Gay Terminology
Fwiw, I've never heard or read "gay" or "fruit" used by African Americans the way those words are described by Ruth Archer and Poppagator..

Some equivalent colloquial words that we do use {and have used in the past} are "lame"; "weak", "tired", "sorry", and "jive" {including "lame ass", "weak ass", "sorry ass", "tired ass" and "jive ass"}.

Examples: "I don't like that lame ass record. It's real weak.

and

"Did you hear that jive ass speech that sorry excuse for ____{name a political position] made last night? Who does he thinks gonna vote for his lame ass self?

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Hmmm.

Check out all of those asses.

You could say that our asses get a lot of work.

;o}