State of Youth Slang In France

[Grant Barrett]

On Mar 19, 2005, at 21:51, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Does anyone remember the movie filmed in NYC,
> "Kids," from ca. 1995? There is a scene in which
> the protagonist says to his friend, "Nigger, what
> you doin' lookin' at my mama tittie?" The people
> who appear in this scene are all white.

I recently saw and heard three young Latinas on the NYC subway,
outbound from Manhattan, refer to each other as "son." Odd enough to
hear 13-year-old Dominican boys say it to each other (as you can
witness on the NYC baseball fields almost any Summer weekend day), but
between girls?

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org