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| | |  mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - The dozens - History and practiceThe dozens can be a harmless game of casual, good-natured jibes, an exchange of malicious insults, or, if tempers flare, a prelude to physical violence. While the competition on its face is usually light-hearted, smiles sometimes mask real tensions. In its purest form, the dozens is part of an African-American custom of verbal sparring, of "woofin'" and "signifyin'", ostensibly intended to defuse conflict nonviolently, descended from an oral tradition rooted in traditional West African cultures. Likely this stems from how many tribal dispute ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - The dozens - Examples of snaps What follow are a few sanitized, less colorful examples of snaps in the dozens.
"Yo' momma's so fat..."
"...she fell in love and broke it."
"...when she goes out camping, the bears have to hide their food."
"...she sat on a rainbow and Skittles popped out!"
"...she's on both sides of the family."
"...she uses Mexico as a tanning bed."
"When she sits on dollar, she makes change."
Yo' momma's so heavy, when she stepped on a scale...
"...it said, 'One at a time, please!'"
"...it said, 'No livestock allowed!'"< ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - The dozens - The dozens in literature Snaps (1994), written by James Percelay, is a compendium of over 450 jokes. Its popularity gave rise to sequels Double Snaps (1995), Triple Snaps (1996), and Snaps 4 (1998). The books use the epithet "your mother", as opposed to the more common "yo' momma".
A Portrait of Yo Mama As a Young Man (2005), written by Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts, is a postmodern take on the dozens which redefines the form through the use of reflexivity, absurdism, and anti-humor. In addition to jokes, the book contains charts, po ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - The dozens - Related practices outside the African-American community There are similar phenomena to the dozens in other cultures. In Britain, for instance, the analogous usage is "your mum" or "your mam" or "yer maw". Derogatory barbs focus almost exclusively on impugning the sexual integrity of the target's mother.
Historically, similar verbal competitions were practiced in other cultures. Ancient Germanic cultures, including the Norse and Anglo-Saxons, practiced a ritual exchange of insults known as flyting, which is similar in function to the dozens. In sixteenth-century Scotland, the term flyting w ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - Dyirbal language - Phonology Dyirbal actually has only four places of articulation for the stop and nasal consonants—this is fewer than most other Australian Aboriginal languages, which have six. This is because Dyirbal lacks the dental/alveolar split typically found in these languages. Like the majority of Australian languages, it does not make a distinction between voiced consonants (such as b, d, g, etc.) and voiceless consonants (the corresponding p, t, and k, etc. respectively). Standard orthography uses voiced consonants, which seem to be preferred by speakers o ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - Dyirbal language - Grammar The language is best known for its system of noun classes, numbering four in total. They tend to be divided among the following semantic lines:
I - animate objects, men
II - women, water, fire, violence
III - edible fruit and vegetables
IV - miscellaneous (includes things not classifiable in the first three)
The class usually labeled "feminine" (II), for instance, includes the word for fire and nouns relating to fire, as well as all dangerous creatures and phenomena. This inspired the tit ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - Australian Aboriginal languages - Classification Most Australian languages are commonly held to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, a family by no means unproblematic but still accepted by most linguists (with R. M. W. Dixon as a noted exception). For convenience, the rest of the languages, all spoken in the far north, are commonly lumped together as "Non-Pama Nyungan", although they do not constitute a genetic family. Dixon has argued that after perhaps 40,000 years of mutual influence, it's no longer possible to distinguish deep genealogical relationships from areal features in Aus ...
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| | | | mother-in-law languages: Encyclopedia II - Australian Aboriginal languages - Classification Most Australian languages are commonly held to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, a family by no means unproblematic but still accepted by most linguists (with R.M.W. Dixon as a noted exception). For convenience, the rest of the languages, all spoken in the far north, are commonly lumped together as "Non-Pama Nyungan" despite not constituting a genetic family. Dixon has argued that after perhaps 40,000 years of mutual influence, it is no longer possible to distinguish deep genealogical relationships from areal features in Aus ...
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