Bad Girls speak

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:19 AM -0500 2/7/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM
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>"Deride; disdain."  Definitely not what you'd expect from SE "hater."
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>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."
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>JL

Also popularized by Stuart Scott, ESPN's 
quasi-hip-hop SportsCenter anchor, for e.g. 
defensive backs intercepting passes, basketball 
shot-blockers, and outfielders or infielders in 
baseball making a great play to retire a batter. 
I suppose the metaphor is that since the 
offensive guys are the playas, the defensive 
stoppers are cock-blocking playa-hatas.

LH

>   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 oÛ sont les neiges d'antan?
>>  I blame Global Warming.
>>  http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Jonathan Lighter [mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
>>  Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:16 PM
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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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>>  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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>>  > --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.)
>>  >
>>  > >JL
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