Monday, February 25, 2008
THE GAME DON'T CHANGE, JUST THE PLAYERS
To be honest anything that's considered "popular" can never lose its meaning or value. Because what's considered "popular" today, evolves into something that will have the same meanings and values tomorrow. For example the use of "jive talking" which was a common way of discourse in the sixties and seventies amongst the african-american community, until the early eighties and ninties when "jive talking" evolved into "slang talking".But now in 2008 it has evolved yet again into what we now consider to be "ebonics".But Eventhough the three diffrent languages, wheather it's slang, jive, or ebonics the words differ but the meaning and value of the word stays the same. For example the word "money"has three different sayings, but has the same meaning. In "jive talk"it's (bread), "slang talk" (doe), "ebonics" (cheese) etc. That's just example of how something that is considered "popular" spanning back to three different era's in african-american culture but yet never losing it's true meaning or value of the popular language.
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NICE!
I love this example; good work!
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