…the linguistic and paralinguistic features which on a concentric continuum represents the communicative compentencee of the West African, Caribbean, and United States idioms, patois, argots, ideolects, and social forces of black people…Ebonics derives its form from ebony(black) and phonics(sound, study of sound) and refers to the study of the language of black people in all its cultural uniqueness.ĪAVE is part of the long history of Black languages it is a system of sounds, words and sentence structures with strong African semantics. This language also falls within a body of work known as ‘Ebonics’- “Ebony” deriving from the word ‘Black’ and “phonics” derives from the word ‘sound’.
The renowned lingo forms part of a language called AAVE.įor those who don’t know, AAVE is short for ‘African American Vernacular English’ and is a language created by African Americans. In your music, on social media, or maybe just in everyday conversation.īut have you ever stopped to wonder where these words actually come from? Lovebirds are flocking to the video sharing platform to share their romantic updates, adding a screenshot of their ‘o22’ or ‘o33’ to their TikToks.Surely, you’ve heard of the words ‘bae’… ‘lit’… ‘trippin’, ‘what’s good’. The Notes have, in turn, made their way back to TikTok. This evolved into the number code as seen on Instagram Notes. TRENDING: IS THERE A MOON PHASE FILTER ON TIKTOK FOR THE POPULAR TREND?Įarlier this month, TikTok users participated in a trend which saw others guessing their name.The entire alphabet has corresponding number code, meaning that you can share your crush with the world through cryptic social media posts. The former represents the letter ‘M’, meaning your Mikes and Matthews, and the latter is a stand-in for ‘J’, be that Justin or Jeremiah. Other ones you might come across includes ‘o33’ and ‘o45’. ‘A’ codes aren’t the only popular ones turning up in these social media posts. MORE: How to get Notes on Instagram and can you turn it off?.So, anyone popping ‘o22’ in their social media posts could be dating the likes of an Adam, Alex, or Austin.
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