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    Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
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    Image of The HZA. The HZA.
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    I watched the show with both bemusement and utter horror. I have always found The Girls Next Door to be endearing, and their lifestyle so far from mine that it is like watching those National Geographic documentaries on a far-off culture.


    But Kendra is so incredibly tacky, and her now-husband and I wore the same "I don't believe it" expression in observing her antics.

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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Oh.


    Oh, dear.


    This would be bad even if inaccurate co-optation of urban slang were not a phenomenon approximately the same number of years old as Incan civilization.

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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    She's dumb for sure...I really wish she went to school and educated herself a little more...because she needs it. That being said, she seems incredibly sweet and nice and I LOVE her fiancee/husband now. They seem like a really good couple and I wish them all the luck.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    06/29/09

    @JinxyMcDeath: You know, Mr. Foibles and I have been watching the show, and for the reasons you listed we are fervently hoping they'll last as a couple. Hank is so adorable and normal, and she's just so sweet and goofy. They really do make a sweet couple.
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    Image of CGirl CGirl
    06/29/09

    @JinxyMcDeath: I don't personally know her, but going to school is not everyone's purpose in life. I've never heard anything offensive and ignorant (wich, let's face it, doesn't necesarily comes from being uneducated)coming from her. She is very sweet, nice and funny from what I've seen on tv.
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    06/29/09

    @CGirl: She doesn't know shit about shit. You learn about that stuff in school. Trust me, I know alot of shit and I didn't learn it from living with an old guy in a big house and fucking around in short shorts.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    ...Ok, now I want to learn how to pole dance. Because that actually looked really cool and really hard.
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    Image of FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Poor Kendra. I do this. I have been to co-opt Aussie slang, urban slang, cockney slang, Southern slang and Hawaiin slang and American 70's slang..uhhh, all in one sentence. G'day mah bishes, y'all are a bunch of twists and Haolies, and, yo, I can dig it.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    06/29/09

    @FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: Ehoa!
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    06/29/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith:


    Kia ora ehoa!


    Props, mah malihini sistah.

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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    06/29/09

    @FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: Ooh, ka pai!

    Kei te pēhea koe?
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    06/29/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: (any chance to flex my Maori, and I jump!)
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    06/29/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith:
    Tino kino te pai, thanks.


    Kei rung a noa atu!


    I believe in speaking all the world's languages. Or at least trying. People in other countries will love you for it, even while they're laughing at you. It's great fun and you'll find yourself an adopted daughter in many lands. Way to go with your Maori skills!

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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    06/30/09

    @FarleyDrexel is crossing the Rubicon: Ha, cheers! Although I am a Kiwi slash am part Maori, so, you know... I don't use it enough!
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Kendra's penchant for racial appropriation is probaly her most offensive quality.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    06/29/09

    @Understater: You chose your username for a reason, didn't you?
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    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    My kitchen, in comparison, sucks.
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    Image of R_Claw R_Claw
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Kids these days, sheesh!
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    Image of KLondike5 KLondike5
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    She's not so far off, or so say some reliable sources: [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    06/29/09

    @KLondike5: Arguably, a matter of interpretive opinion.
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    Image of mrsryan mrsryan
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    When did having a stripper pole in one's home become tantamount to owning a cuisinart?
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    Image of femputer femputer
    06/29/09

    @mrsryan: BWAHAHAAAAAHA.


    But then, we now know vibrators are as common as coffee makers....


    (and if anyone tries to turn this into a heated analysis of how one is for a woman's personal pleasure and the other is for objectification of women for ze menz, I officially quit).

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    06/29/09

    @femputer: @I got an A - now where's my bacon?: It's strange; there this underlying message that it's empowering, I think, or that it makes these reality girls really cool for not being "wet blankets," or something. I don't have a massive problem with it, but it's curious to me. The strip clubs I have seen are pretty much the saddest places ever.
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    Image of Uncommon Whore Uncommon Whore
    06/29/09

    @mrsryan: I've never been to a strip club, but I took a pole dancing class and it gave me some serious upper arm definition.
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    Image of special_boots special_boots
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    We're sure she didn't intend to get "hyphy"?


    Because that would make a fair amount of sense: [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of PreposterousHypothesis PreposterousHypothesis
    06/29/09

    @special_boots: Getting hyphy makes sense. I just think defining it as a dance is inaccurate.
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    06/29/09

    @PreposterousHypothesis: I believe you're right, though I do think it involves dance to some degree. (My hyphy knowledge is derived entirely from a DVD that someone put on in a dorm room when I was in college. There was dancing that happened. That's all I know.)
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Is it possible Kendra's usage is specific to the region from which she comes?? Who doesn't enjoy a rousing discussion of diction?!!
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    06/29/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: It's the only way to relax after a great deal of anger over the common use of poor syntax.
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    06/29/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: Aiiiight nao.

    Don't start none won't be none.
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    The dog sniffing the woman's armpits reminded me that I use to think it was so sweet when my friend's dog placed her snout in my lap whenever I first went around. I later realied the dog was simply doing that to identify me by my personal parfum de rare affinity.
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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    06/29/09

    In reply to Kendra: Inaccurately Co-opting Urban Slang
    Reason #1,453 I know I'm a nerd: I hear hifey and all I can think of is hyphae:


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    Image of stealthird stealthird
    06/29/09

    @save jinger: Is that mold?
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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    06/29/09

    @save jinger:


    Mark's always getting hyphae in the club, he's such a fungi.

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    06/29/09

    @AmericanSplendor: But don't sleep with him, you'll get a yeast infection...
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    06/29/09

    @AmericanSplendor: Oh, noice!! I lol'd.
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