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fallowcentury t1_j4gg878 wrote

Reply to comment by Allemaengel in Seen in Harrisburg, Philly vernacular spreading west? by [deleted]

why not? im from philly. it has extremely distinct proper syntax and meanings ssociated with it. in fact it's complicated slang and it exists for good reasons!

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Allemaengel t1_j4gqmys wrote

Got badly overused.

Hell of a lot of people on the Philly sub seem to hate it anytime it gets discussed there.

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courageous_liquid t1_j4h60x0 wrote

Because it's 99% of the time misused by millennial transplants

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Allemaengel t1_j4ha49j wrote

That makes sense and probably why it seems annoying.

That said there's nothing inherently wrong with the word itself.

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