Phrases you hate...

Huh I didn't know it came from drag but sure! I've seen a lot of people write it, like on fb, but the only people I've heard say it convincingly are Black women? I think I assumed it was a church lady thing like snapping your fingers to agree w something, or waving your fan.

When people write it as "YAAAAASSSSS" I hear it in a nasally long island accent

"YAAAAASSSSSS" and 'YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS" are not the same thing. Is "YAYYYYYS" even a thing? I've never heard that before.

actually laurel you are right, it could very well have come from from not-necessarily-queer black women! Slang seems to move v fluidly btwn the two (p sure "basic" came from black women, "shade" and "reading" came from ballroom qpoc, etc) but idk it seems like RPDR was the (admittedly appropriateive) catalyst that actually launched them

but I could be v wrong, I really don't know

Stevie I need you to break this down for me

but I just did :(

I mean what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

"transitioning" as a verb in anything except sex reassignment contexts.

what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

One would be pronounced either as /jɑːs/ or /jæs/ (with requisite extension of the 's' sound) and the other would be pronounced as /jeɪs/ or /jeɪz/. I can't comment on the sociolinguistics at play here but they're clearly different words.

do they have different usages?

in case you needed a (actually pretty good) thinkpiece about "basic":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/basic-class-anxiety

xp

YAYYSSS is prob lil jon

YAAASSS is like this (this is my fav example of "yass")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbV4tl9n20

omgomgomg

this is also prime "YAAASSSSS", like this is *exactly* the intonation, context, everything you could possibly want from a "what is yaaassss" video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgrnm37MwE

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Ok upon viewing these videos I am ok with YAAAASSSSS, but remain anti-YAAAASSSSS-appropriation

Just to be clear, it's supposed to be obvious that someone else is voicing the cat right?

I'm watching a YAAAASSS GAGA compilation now. I feel like I am now re-thinking my whole entire understanding of the meaning of Gaga as a vessel for YAAASSSS, it's blowing my mind.

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Yeah, Scottish people have been saying YASSS for a long time.

I love when ILX gets all YAAASSSS'd out.

I kind of want to post this subthread with everything but "YAAAASSSSS"es blacked out

Did we talk about the odious phrase "open the kimono" here or in another thread? I can't remember, but here's an article that attempts to trace its origins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744/why-corporate-executives-talk-about-opening-their-kimonos

yeah that phrase basically makes me think about old man bodies

Anyone come across 'pooing in the pool', meaning 'to kill somebody else's idea during brainstorming sessions' - e.g. 'I don't want to poo in your pool here, but I don't think this new logo plan is going to fly'.

"You already pooed in my pool just by using that phrase"

What's wrong with good old poo-free "rain on your parade"?

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Man I hate business, and meetings, and work, and capitalism, and productivity, and white boards, and jargon.

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Yeah, that's why the phrase got termed allegedly - you're not supposed to poo in other people's pools during brainstorms, although I will make an exception for the person who thought the term up in the first place.

Babytalk in general in the workplace.

http://compforce.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451df4569e2017ee838e3ba970d-pi

i do not like it when 'murcans say "preggers"

i have a hard time not saying anything when my friends call me "mama"

wow i totally blurted that out of nowhere after literally years of not saying anything but there it is

We say "pragnant" a a lot

As in how girl get pragnant

i have a hard time not saying anything when my friends call me "mama"

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Wait wait I'm taking notes.

people call you "mama"!?

taking notes? what for?

and yes -- i have several friends who seem to enjoy calling me mama as a term of endearment and frankly i hate it

i'm guessing it's just a habit/something they call their other friends
and i don't want to raise a stink or cut them off from me any more than they are
but i don't like it and i had a little outburst

Sort of in a hippieish way? I think I've heard that once or twice. It's not a very new york thing to do.

i don't even know
usually it's "thanks, mama" or "love you mama" or something like that
it's always done with love i just wish it were another word

Yeah I have heard that somewhere. Maybe at the crunchy baby products store, in which case it was referring to an actual mama but still.

Maybe even worse since it implies the woman is just generic "mama" now.

Oh I call people mama sometimes, I'm pretty sure. Also I've gotten a newfound appreciation for "ma" since I watched a lot of this Botswanan detective show and afaict it's a term of polite address for all women.

yeah i don't like that either

i might feel differently we were both in/from botswana but

that can be said about a lot of things

i understand it's meant as a term of endearment which is why i never piped up

One time I was in the parking lot of a Further show and I sneezed and a young hippie woman said, "Bless you, mama" and I felt like I had been promoted from maid to crone.

Fun fact: the entire time I was in the hospital for my daughter's birth, the nurses routinely called me mama instead of my name, my daughter's pediatrician calls me mama as in "Okay we'll be in exam room two, mama," and sometimes Ivy's daycare teachers call me mama. Easier than learning my name, I guess.

Er maid to mother, I should say.

Haha okay I'll dial it back I mean to the extent that I ever say it (which is prob very little really). Or save it for ppl who won't mind. I don't think it has anything at all to do with actual motherhood but that's just my take.