Bad Girls speak

[Jonathan Lighter]

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From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Bad Girls speak
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"Deride; disdain."  Definitely not what you'd expect from SE "hater."

Years ago I saw a Tennessee vanity plate that said "PLAYAHATA."  A
well-established, usu. critical,  hiphop term for one, esp. a female, who
disapproves of "playas."

JL

JL

  On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Seán Fitzpatrick <grendel.jjf at verizon.net
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> FWIW, just last Thursday I heard a young woman (white, 17, goes to school
> in
> the Wallingford-Swarthmore (PA) school district) say to her friends as she
> struggled doing chin-ups:  "Don't hate on my weak arms".
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> Sean Fitzpatrick
> Mais oů sont les neiges d'antan?
> I blame Global Warming.
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> Maybe, but it has a life of its own. The speaker is from Boston.  The BGs
> often use "hater" to mean somebody who feels or shows obvious dislike, is
> jealous, etc.  Not quite what you'd expect of S.E. "hater."
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> JL
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> > "hate on": parallel to (Southern?) "love on"?
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> > --Charlie
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> > >The latest update from cable charm school.  Not all new, but of
> interest:
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> > >"People are gonna hate on her for the same reasons they hate on me."
> > >(Dislike and treat meanly.)
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> > >JL
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