Monday, January 28, 2008

Noz from CocaineBlunts put up some great links to chatter on some language studies websites about Baltimore slang, in particular the unique use of "yo" as a pronoun. It's funny, someone from a magazine recently who asked me about Baltimore slang, and the first thing I brought up was the way folks use "yo" in place of "he" or "she." It seems like people in Baltimore have talked this way forever, but if anyone has any background on it or when/where exactly it started, you should go over to the Language Hat blog and comment. I could probably dip into my mixtape library and pull out a hundred Bmore rap lyrics that use "yo" as a pronoun, but, uh, that'd take a lot of work. Maybe if people really wanted to see that, though.

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