Semantics “’Do you’ certainly sallies forth from black vernacular, even if the nature of its mundane parts makes its origin Google-proof” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 April 2015 “Do you” certainly sallies forth from black vernacular, even if the nature of its...
Semantics “Something interesting happens when a word that suggests action is applied to beauty: It recasts beauty as something that can be done, pulled off — not just possessed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 April 2015 It’s perhaps our first untroubled word for human beauty, free of the whiff of...
Semantics “Classify your antagonists as haters, however, and your flaws are absolved by their greater sin of envy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 April 2015 Haters hate; that’s them doing them. No matter how saintly you are, the kittens...
Hip-Hop, Semantics “While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by hip-hop” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2015 While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by...
Gender, Semantics “…calling oneself a “slut” doesn’t allow a girl or woman to wrest the term away from those who would use it to judge her” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 February 2015 In a milieu where females are hypersexualized, embracing the word slut does not seem...