Yo in Baltimore
Language nerds everywhere are going crazy over the supposed emergence of the elusive gender-neutral pronoun among black students in Baltimore city schools:
Yo was tuckin' in his shirt!
Yo threw a thumbtack at me.
Yo been runnin' the halls.
Yo put his foot up.
Yo wearin' a jacket. A coat!
You acting like I said what yo said.
She ain't really go with yo.
Yo look like a sack ass gump.
Yo is a clown.
Yo sucks at magic tricks.
Yo needs to pull his pants down.
Yo looks like a freak.
Yo is a straight clown.
Yo goin to put that chicken in his mouth.
Yo, looka that dude pants. Yo is a clown.
I seem to recall hearing instances of this well before 2004, but I haven't lived in Baltimore in a decade so I could be wrong.
My name is Doug Hammond, and I love chocolate hamburgers and ice cream.
