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re: The word "janky"
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:45 am to baybeefeetz
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:45 am to baybeefeetz
You searching for racism. Shocked.
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Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:46 am to baybeefeetz
Here you go, genius:
Janky first emerged in black slang in the 1990s, featured in rap songs as early as Ice Cube's 1993 “Really Doe”:
Janky first emerged in black slang in the 1990s, featured in rap songs as early as Ice Cube's 1993 “Really Doe”:
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:50 am to baybeefeetz
I dont consider myself "ghetto" but sadly a lot of shite I get ends up being "janky"
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:54 am to baybeefeetz
Janky: exceptional in execution but not ideal in practice.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:54 am to LSUballs
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The poster Janky is short, mad and bad at golf. Or so BRgetthenet said.
Where did this baw go? He get mad and leave?
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:56 am to baybeefeetz
Your theory is horseshite.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:01 pm to baybeefeetz
Saying “janky” is as ratchet as saying ratchet.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:01 pm to baybeefeetz
Yep, black people made it up so that white people would not have to say ghetto. Thanks guys!
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:32 pm to baybeefeetz
Janky = TDTOM
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:49 pm to hogminer
You should read my post again. I’m not the race guy, buddy. I’m more like the opposite.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:52 pm to chryso
Thank you. So white people didn't make it up. They appropriated it from black people. Got it.
This post was edited on 11/10/21 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:53 pm to baybeefeetz
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It's a niche question.
What question?
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:55 pm to baybeefeetz
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My theory on this word is that white people made it up
Oh yeah?
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Janky first emerged in black slang in the 1990s, featured in rap songs as early as Ice Cube’s 1993 “Really Doe”: “Hard to swallow, janky as Rollo / Count to ten, and don’t try to follow.” Rollo may be a reference to Rollo Lawson, a recurring character on the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, who had a seedy reputation on the show. The Roots and Coolio also prominently featured janky in lyrics in 1993–94. It is unclear where the term originates, but hip-hop and black culture more generally helped popularize the term among various young people, and into the mainstream lexicon, in the 2000s.
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This post was edited on 11/10/21 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:55 pm to baybeefeetz
I'm sorry, could you define "appropriated" for me?
Posted on 11/10/21 at 12:57 pm to baybeefeetz
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Thank you. So white people didn't make it up. Theyquote:it from black people. Got it.
appropriated
Posted on 11/10/21 at 1:04 pm to baybeefeetz
Why wouldn’t we just say “ghetto”?
Posted on 11/10/21 at 1:11 pm to baybeefeetz
According to a 10 second google search the word comes from 90’s black culture and Ice Cube was one of if not the first to use it in any cited use.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 1:14 pm to baybeefeetz
To my mind, ghetto always has a note of derision and mean-spiritedness. In comparision, janky seems more emotionally neutral (almost whimsical) and far more elastic in meaning, somewhat combining aspects of chintzy and tarded, with a more than obvious resemblance to a misspelling of junky.
Janky might sometimes, but not always, fit in a sentence in place of ghetto, but ghetto is more limited and I think it would work in less circumstances where janky is... like in describing how a computer program is acting glitchy or buggy, or in describing an odd way of getting something done. Ghetto is almost completely inferior as a word choice in such instances.
So, I see why you might've thought what you said in the OP (depending on how you were exposed to the word), but I don't think they're that close to being considered true synonyms.
Sketch is another word that might fall in this category, where it might have a racist connotation in some contexts, but generally should not be viewed this way.
Janky might sometimes, but not always, fit in a sentence in place of ghetto, but ghetto is more limited and I think it would work in less circumstances where janky is... like in describing how a computer program is acting glitchy or buggy, or in describing an odd way of getting something done. Ghetto is almost completely inferior as a word choice in such instances.
So, I see why you might've thought what you said in the OP (depending on how you were exposed to the word), but I don't think they're that close to being considered true synonyms.
Sketch is another word that might fall in this category, where it might have a racist connotation in some contexts, but generally should not be viewed this way.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 1:22 pm to baybeefeetz
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So white people didn't make it up. They appropriated it from black people. Got it.
It seems Ice Cube coined the phrase in a song. Does one black person coming up with something mean that it belongs to all black people and only black people? Ice Cube is a man. Why does it not belong to all men and women appropriated it? Alternately, I see that Ice Cube is a Gemini. Would this work perhaps belong to all Geminis?
Why do you force everything through a racial lens when that is one of MANY differences between people?
Posted on 11/10/21 at 1:31 pm to baybeefeetz
In Covington, it’s a very nice street and is spelled “Jahncke”.
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