{"id":28085,"date":"2025-03-29T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28085"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:21:17","slug":"why-do-people-take-slang-terms-from-black-or-queer-communities-ie-clock-that-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/29\/why-do-people-take-slang-terms-from-black-or-queer-communities-ie-clock-that-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people take slang &amp; terms from black or queer communities? ie. &#8220;clock that tea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW03292025-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW03292025-05.jpg\" alt=\"Why do people take slang &amp; terms from black or queer communities? ie. &quot;clock that tea&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-28076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW03292025-05.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW03292025-05-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why do people take slang &amp; terms from black or queer communities? ie. &#8220;clock that tea&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They borrow language from groups using in-group language to establish group identity. And people want the cachet of that authenticity. Why don&#8217;t they take slang and terms from librarians? They should! IDK why &#8220;Check line 520 in the MARC record&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have cachet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1.jpg\" alt=\"Slang naturally trickles up over time, in almost all languages it starts with the most marginalized abd moves up until everyone's saying it. It's just kinda how words work naturally\" class=\"wp-image-28115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040225-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Slang naturally trickles up over time, in almost all languages it starts with the most marginalized abd moves up until everyone&#8217;s saying it. It&#8217;s just kinda how words work naturally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also an interesting theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They borrow language from groups using in-group language to establish group identity. And people want the cachet of that authenticity. Why don&#8217;t they take slang and terms from librarians? They should! IDK why &#8220;Check line 520 in the MARC record&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have cachet. This is also an interesting theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28116,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions\/28116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}