"keep it real"

[Siegel, Jason F.]

I also have the impression that it is often used like "take care" or 
"see you around" as just something that people say when they are saying 
good-bye.

--Jason

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Jason F. Siegel
Ph.D. Student, Linguistics & French Linguistics
Department of French & Italian
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1020 East Kirkwood Avenue
Indiana University
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USA
siegeljf at indiana.edu


Quoting Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>:

> At 10:04 PM -0700 7/12/08, Mary Bucholtz wrote:
>> It's an African American English expression that's widely used in
>> hip hop culture. From there it's spread to a large number of speech
>> communities around the world.
>>
>> Mary
>
> In support of this, another poster on ADS-L, Ben Zimmer of Oxford
> University Press, notes:
>
> FWIW, "Keep It Real" is the title of a track on John Lee and Gerry
> Brown's 1975 Blue Note album "Mango Sunrise".
>
> http://www.worldsoul.com/JOHN_LEE_&_GERRY_BROWN__1390_html
>
>
>>
>> --On Friday, July 11, 2008 2:23 PM +0100 Sarah Colvin
>> <sarah.colvin at ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can anybody give me a reference or advise me re. the history, use, and
>>> meaning of the phrase "keep it real"?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sarah Colvin
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>