This article starts so promisingly and then falls over and rolls in bullshit https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/troubling-origin-of-common-slang-words-think-twice/12268132
There are so many slang words that Gary could have argued to take out of common parlance a whole lot of ableist ones for starters.
Munter - without showing his research, Gary claims that the English word comes from an Afrikaans slur. It might, but wiktionary doesn't have any info
Munter - without showing his research, Gary claims that the English word comes from an Afrikaans slur. It might, but wiktionary doesn't have any info
Pidgin English - no complaints there. We shouldn't make fun of people learning new languages and English is hard.
Stan - I had no idea where this came from myself, and am too old to know how to use it properly
Woke - hard agree on the appropriation of AAVE
Stan - I had no idea where this came from myself, and am too old to know how to use it properly
Woke - hard agree on the appropriation of AAVE
Which brings us to queer... and this thread says it all, so I'm not going to repeat it. Use queer carefully. It's an ok umbrella term but some people still struggle with it. Also, queer is not a fucking slang word anymore Gary https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1264331209167044609