Maybe they should defund NPR after all...

What is the good of words if honest people cannot agree on their use?

English is a living language many words are flexible and have multiple meanings


the new word is ebola, yo, aiight

I submit to you the following evidence, circa 1986,:

Now the Adidas I possess for one man is rare
myself homeboy got 50 pair
got blue and black cause I like to chill
and yellow and green when it's time to get ill

...implying that "ill" is both flashy and desirable. Your move, NYTimes.

Who deez wack ass honkiez thinks they is? Damn now black people are going to have to change the meaning cause the white devils are cathing on.

PanicMan: I submit to you the following evidence, circa 1986,:

Now the Adidas I possess for one man is rare
myself homeboy got 50 pair
got blue and black cause I like to chill
and yellow and green when it's time to get ill

...implying that "ill" is both flashy and desirable. Your move, NYTimes.

From the same album, but it actually uses illin:

The other day around the way I seen you illin at a party
Drunk as skunk you illin punk and in your left hand was Bacardi
You went up to this fly girl and said "Yo, yo, can I get this dance?"
She smelt your breath and then she left you standin in your illin stance
You be illin

...implying that "illin" is wack.

NuttierThanEver: I wish I could find a flow chart of that bit from Mad TV about the evolution of the word cool.

/white folks still don't understand funky

Homie don't do that...

PanicMan: I submit to you the following evidence, circa 1986,:

Now the Adidas I possess for one man is rare
myself homeboy got 50 pair
got blue and black cause I like to chill
and yellow and green when it's time to get ill

...implying that "ill" is both flashy and desirable. Your move, NYTimes.

Turning yellow and green are signs of sickness, and the gentleman rhyming has so many Adidas that he has a pair specifically for when he's sick, or as he phrases it, it's time to get ill.

Travos: The other day around the way I seen you illin at a party
Drunk as skunk you illin punk and in your left hand was Bacardi
You went up to this fly girl and said "Yo, yo, can I get this dance?"
She smelt your breath and then she left you standin in your illin stance
You be illin

...implying that "illin" is wack.

Illin at a party is, of course, getting sick at a party. Specifically it is vomiting at a party, which is why the gentlemen referred to in the rhyme has a foul odor emanating from his mouth.

chimp_ninja: For dinner, you ate it, there was none left
It was salty, with butter, and it was def
You proceeded to eat it, 'cuz you was in the mood
But homes you didn't read, it was a can of dog food!

You be illin'...

This subsequent work implies that if one is illin' (the NYT clue, not just "ill"), one is clueless and worthy of mockery.

While I certainly concur that a person who eats dog food and vomits is clueless and worthy of mockery, I believe the intent of this particular rhyme is to convey straightforwardly that the person being ridiculed ate dog food and threw up or got sick (i.e. ill).

To say something is ill is to say it is sick, to say something is illin' is to say it is showing visible signs of sickness (generally vomiting). This is strongly associated with the symptoms of alcohol poisoning.

/thus endeth the lesson

chimp_ninja: Travos: ...implying that "illin" is wack.

Upon adjusting my monocle, I must concur. Good day, PanicMan. I said, Good day!

Bah! I am bested! Curse my mediocre knowledge of the hip-hop world!

Bust-down means whore
Runner mean whore
/The more you know

macross87: NuttierThanEver: I wish I could find a flow chart of that bit from Mad TV about the evolution of the word cool.

/white folks still don't understand funky

Homie don't doplay that...

FTFY.

Negro please

I think the only reason DS9 should be left out of the TNG/TOS conversation is because the latter 2 have comparable show structures, i.e. ship exploring space. But simply in terms of a quality production set in the Star Trek universe, DS9 holds its own against those two, it really was great after the first season.

Richard Sauce: I think the only reason DS9 should be left out of the TNG/TOS conversation is because the latter 2 have comparable show structures, i.e. ship exploring space. But simply in terms of a quality production set in the Star Trek universe, DS9 holds its own against those two, it really was great after the first season.

You be illin' up the wrong thread, bro

drongozone: Richard Sauce: I think the only reason DS9 should be left out of the TNG/TOS conversation is because the latter 2 have comparable show structures, i.e. ship exploring space. But simply in terms of a quality production set in the Star Trek universe, DS9 holds its own against those two, it really was great after the first season.

You be illin' up the wrong thread, bro

Werd, son. I done got it twisted. My bust, I'ma be up out dis biatch.

Richard Sauce: drongozone: Richard Sauce: I think the only reason DS9 should be left out of the TNG/TOS conversation is because the latter 2 have comparable show structures, i.e. ship exploring space. But simply in terms of a quality production set in the Star Trek universe, DS9 holds its own against those two, it really was great after the first season.

You be illin' up the wrong thread, bro

Werd, son. I done got it twisted. My bust, I'ma be up out dis biatch.

Or perhaps I should say, "I'ma BEAM up out dis biatch"
*self-satisfied nerd chortle*