Yeah, it's sad that "ebonics" and basically poor grammar and pronunciation have become cool. Hip hop has been hot for a few years, and so our youth tries to imitate it to be cool. By age 30 most will figure out that when you wear your pants down around your thighs with your drawers showing and talking like you have zero education just makes you look stupid.
I'm sure some of us have some 80's wardrobe and haircuts that we can look back and wonder what the fuck we were thinking.... And there's probably some of us on here who can understand "valley girl" speak and remember it.
Shizzle and a lot of those type words have their origins actually back in the 20's with carny speak from the carnivals. They would distort their language in a manner in which the marks couldn't understand what they were saying when talking to each other. Professional wrestlers adapted it for many of the same reasons, many of the really old school guys still use it to call their match so even if you hear it you probably cant understand what they're saying.
I think hip hop adapted it to be able to talk about stuff on the radio that the FCC wouldn't appreciate but isn't "cool" enough to figure out. "The Shit" becomes "The Shiznit" in carny and further evolves to "The Shizzle".
Last edited by Hell Puppy at Nov 2 2003, 05:12 PM
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