New (“Urban/Slang”) Words
Posted in culture on March 4th, 2008Ok, so maybe it was during my downtime last year recovering from surgery, house hunting these past six months or something along those lines that caused me to miss it, but where did these words come from?? Like out of the blue they drop onto the scene and I hear people everywhere using them.
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This is the DC metro area. DMV stands for DC,Maryland,Virginia. The whole DMV listens to gogo music which originated in DC. We love northface gear and mambo sauce in chinese carry-outs. We rep our hood to da fullest cuz aint no other place like us anywhere in the US. Our whole swag and slang and music and clothes is different from everybody else. I can go on and on bout us but i’m not.
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Ok, slore i’ve used recently when it deemed necessary and I found it to be very appropriate and useful under the correct situation. It fits well with when trying to describe a person or persons that otherwise would fit the description of both of these words but normally would have to use either or. I commend the person that came up with this simple, but cleaver combination of the two.
DMV: Ok, this circulates mostly in my (black) community and has becoming increasingly popular over the past i’d say 6-10months and bothers me sort of. Why? Because we already had a good word for this area, it’s called chocolate city. The term chocolate city refers to a positive, harmonious image of a predominantly African American city, Chris Rock was really one of the first from our generation to say it out loud in 1996 on his HBO special “Bring the pain” and has pretty much stuck with us since then. The word’s meaning referred to ‘DC Metro Area’, it was adopted for the entire area and was a commonly used term of endearment when talking about where you were from.
The term DMV; from anyone that remembers back that far was an acronym for The (Maryland) Department of Motor Vehicles, which in turn was changed a solid 10+yrs ago to the MVA because some politician said so. People had a hard time swallowing it because it had always been called the DMV but people eventually accepted it. Or at least it seemed….Now the acronym has found new life, but due in-part to it’s lack of originality I resent the term being used and believe that either another acronym should of been applied/created/stolen or the one that we had (have still?) should have been kept.
I personally will not be using the DMV term anytime soon, and only time will tell if it has the staying power of chocolate city.
