A young woman sitting next to me on the ferry is talking to someone on her cell phone.
She uses the word "Bitch" as often as most people use the word "the" in a conversation. It is a bit shocking to hear. Everyone and everything is a bitch. Even the person that she is talking to is "bitch" as in friend. The word has little more meaning then "girl" or "hey." It is for her, a near meaningless filler word.
Other than that, her dialect, if that is the right word for it, is basic west coast ebonic.
I wonder if she can turn it off?
I also wonder how much that language usage colors her world?
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