[Ads-l] "salty" - revival??

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 5 02:51:40 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Z Rice <zrice3714 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How is "salty" being "revived", when it is current in the everyday speech
> of african-americans?
>

In the same way that Meghan Trainor is "bringing boody back," of course.

Ain't no need to jump salty.

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-Wilson
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