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Podcast: ICYMI
Episode: Sorry SNL, Gen Z Didnāt Invent That Slang
Description: RachelleĀ andĀ MadisonĀ discuss Elon Muskās episode ofĀ Saturday Night Live. Specifically they break down the āGen Z Hospitalā sketch, where everybody seems to be speaking in internet slang, and the backlash to it. Rachelle explains how all the language used isnāt just from the internet or from Zoomers but from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). This isnāt a new thing, of courseāwhite Americans have been appropriating Black culture for as long as America has been aroundābut as thisĀ Paper magazine article by Rob DozierĀ points out, the internet has made it particularly easy for those words to lose...