Bad Girls speak

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

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".

Sean Fitzpatrick
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
I blame Global Warming.
http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Lighter [mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Girls speak

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."

JL

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> "hate on": parallel to (Southern?) "love on"?
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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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