Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part series on the American English slang word "bae". This post provides an excerpt of a 2014 atlantic.com article about the word "bae" as well as comments from that article's discussion thread.
Part I provides a definition for the word "bae", and includes quotes from several online sites, as well as my thoughts about an early contributing source for that English slang word. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-english-word-bae-really-means.html for that post.
Part III of this series contains selected comments from Pharrell Williams' 2014 Pop record "Come Get It Bae"'s video discussion thread. That YouTube video is also included in that post. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/comments-about-word-bae-from-youtube.html for that post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and etymological reasons.
I'm most interested in the general topic of how the English language has changed and continues to change because of its incorporation of slang in general and African American slang, in particular.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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WHAT I BELIEVE THE ENGLISH SLANG WORD "BAE" MEANS
The English slang word "bae" (pronounced "bay") is a shortened form of the word "baby" or "babe", meaning a person's girlfriend or boyfriend, i.e. someone who is special to you. The word "bae" has recently been expanded to mean something that is special to you, something that you like alot.
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ARTICLE EXCERPT "The Lamentable Death of Bae: A divisive word remembered" James Hamblin
Dec 30 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/the-lamentable-death-of-bae/384086/
..."At that point [in October 2014 that the International House Of Pankakes had tweeted] "Pancakes bae <3 -snip-="" 11="" 2005.="" 2006="" 2008="" 2014="" 2015="" a-e="" a="" about="" above="" according="" accounts="" acronym.="" actually="" adamant="" adapted="" adjectival="" adopting="" adored="" ae="" affection="" african-american="" after="" all="" already="" also="" always="" am="" among="" an="" and="" another="" any="" anyone="" anything.="" appeared="" appreciably="" appropriation...="" appropriation="" aptly="" arby="" are="" article="" as="" asked="" at="" attempt="" audience.="" august="" avatar="" babe="" baby="" back="" bae.="" bae="" be="" beau="" because="" become="" becomes="" been="" before="" begun="" black="" bleaches.="" bleaching="" blog="" blogger="" blues="" boo="" both="" brains="" breaking="" burger="" but="" by="" calcification="" calcifies="" canada="" cannily="" case="" cetera="" circles="" clients="" collaboration="" come="" comments="" common="" condescend="" continues="" coo="" cool="" corporate="" course="" cray="" crazy="" cultural="" current="" cyrus="" database="" date="" dawn="" decade="" december="" defined="" definition="" definitions.="" delivered="" denny="" destoys="" destroyed="" dew="" dicey="" dictionaries="" dictionary="" diminished="" disagree="" disappointing="" discussion="" distaste="" do="" done.="" down-votes="" dropped-letter="" dubious="" dusk.="" each.="" each="" earlier="" eating="" either="" else.="" embrace="" endearment="" english="" ensuing="" entity="" entries="" equal="" esquire="" et="" even="" eventually="" experience="" express="" expressing="" far="" few="" finding="" first="" florida.="" foods="" for="" force-fed.="" force="" forceful="" form="" from="" fully="" fun="" funk="" garden="" garnered="" general="" generalization.="" generally="" genius="" get="" gets="" go="" good="" grammatical="" had="" hands="" has="" hat="" hate="" have="" haynes="" he="" heart="" heavy="" hell="" here="" hip-hop="" hip="" hipness="" his="" hop="" hover="" how="" hut="" ici="" idiosyncratic="" impossible="" impressive="" in-group="" in="" inauthenticity="" incredulity="" inevitable="" initial="" intention="" intercultural="" internet="" investigation="" is="" it="" its="" itself="" jamba="" james="" january="" jargon="" juice="" july="" just="" katy="" keeping="" king="" langsters="" largely="" later="" law="" lexicon.="" like="" likely="" linguist="" ll="" long="" loosely="" loses="" loss="" love="" lover="" lyrical="" made="" magnificently="" main="" mainstream.="" mainstream="" many="" masses="" mean="" meaning="" means="" measured="" media="" medicine="" mentioned="" mild="" miley="" month:="" more="" motto="" mountain="" mourn="" mouse="" music="" my="" natasha="" nearly="" neil="" new="" nonsensical="" normcore="" not="" noting="" notoriously="" of="" offhandedness...an="" official="" officially="" olive="" ome="" on="" one="" or="" origin="" origins="" other="" our="" outs.="" over="" oxford="" pairing="" parse="" part="" particularly="" particulars="" partner="" patients="" pegging="" people="" percolation="" perpetuated="" persists="" personas="" pharrell="" picked="" pizza="" place.="" pointer="" populace="" popular="" proclaimed="" products.="" professionals="" publication="" quoted="" r="" radio="" rap="" read.="" readers="" reat="" release="" rock="" roll="" romantic="" runners-up="" s.="" s="" same="" schnoebelen="" scone="" see.="" seems="" sell="" sense="" separate="" series="" shall="" shares="" she="" shortened="" significant="" similar="" simply="" site="" slacktivism="" slang="" so="" social-media="" social="" solidly="" some="" steinmetz="" story="" strategem.="" strategem="" subcultural="" suffer="" summary="" support="" surprisingly="" sweetie="" technical="" technically="" teenagers="" tends="" term="" that="" the="" their="" them="" theory="" there="" these="" this="" those="" though="" thread:="" through="" time="" to="" told="" tool="" traces="" two="" tyler="" uncommon="" uninspired="" unintelligible="" unknown="" up-votes="" up="" urban="" usage="" use="" used="" usefulness="" user="" vape.="" version="" versions="" very="" video="" voice="" wal-mart="" was.="" was="" way="" ways="" we="" went="" were="" western="" what="" when="" which="" white="" whitman="" who="" whole="" widely="" william="" with="" word.="" word="" words="" would="" writer="" wrote="" ye="" year.="" year="" years="" youtube="" zarinsky=""> Ici Radio Canada
"I'm honored and glad to be of service."
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Pamela Ivins Dobuler > James
"Well, it is a great sentence.
**
Christine Laing, January 2015
"Bae is a weird case. The hatred of bae seems to have been with it since the beginning. Bae-bashed are all over Twitter. It's one of those hipster things where the real hipsters are making fun. The inappropriate use of "bae" by advertisers who think it "enhances a social media brand" isn't helping much. The irony of having Pizza Hut call someone a word that means "lover" on a medium used to mock the word is too delicious.
Meme: When some gross Pizza tries to call me bae!"
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Ici Radio Canada
"Bae is bleaching only if one says "this scone is bae" where scone rhymes with cone.
Otherwise, bae is calcifying."
**
DeclanPatrickCoker
"Oh dear Lord Jesus, people having been saying "bae" in the South forever. Let me die with the Philistines."
**
SerenaJoy
"I had no idea Bae was a thing, was still getting over Boo. Is Boo all done now?"...
-snip-
My response to SerenaJoy to her question "Is Boo all done now?" is no, based on the use of the word "boo" in the 2014 and 2015 comments posted in to the discussion thread of Usher & Alicia Key's 2004 R&B song "My Boo". However, a number of those comments were that if that song was released now it would be titled "My Bae" instead of "My Boo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgf2meEX1w.
Also, a comment posted to Pharrell's record "Come Get It Bae" one week ago [in April 2015] includes the referent "boo" (there meaning someone who you are friendly with)
Jen Sworthout
"Pharrell...you're a GENIOUS!!!! THANK U for your creativity boo!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGMj10wOzg
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This concludes Part II of this series.
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
This is Part II of a two part series on the American English slang word "bae". This post provides an excerpt of a 2014 atlantic.com article about the word "bae" as well as comments from that article's discussion thread.
Part I provides a definition for the word "bae", and includes quotes from several online sites, as well as my thoughts about an early contributing source for that English slang word. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-english-word-bae-really-means.html for that post.
Part III of this series contains selected comments from Pharrell Williams' 2014 Pop record "Come Get It Bae"'s video discussion thread. That YouTube video is also included in that post. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/comments-about-word-bae-from-youtube.html for that post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and etymological reasons.
I'm most interested in the general topic of how the English language has changed and continues to change because of its incorporation of slang in general and African American slang, in particular.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
****
WHAT I BELIEVE THE ENGLISH SLANG WORD "BAE" MEANS
The English slang word "bae" (pronounced "bay") is a shortened form of the word "baby" or "babe", meaning a person's girlfriend or boyfriend, i.e. someone who is special to you. The word "bae" has recently been expanded to mean something that is special to you, something that you like alot.
****
ARTICLE EXCERPT "The Lamentable Death of Bae: A divisive word remembered" James Hamblin
Dec 30 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/the-lamentable-death-of-bae/384086/
..."At that point [in October 2014 that the International House Of Pankakes had tweeted] "Pancakes bae <3 -snip-="" 11="" 2005.="" 2006="" 2008="" 2014="" 2015="" a-e="" a="" about="" above="" according="" accounts="" acronym.="" actually="" adamant="" adapted="" adjectival="" adopting="" adored="" ae="" affection="" african-american="" after="" all="" already="" also="" always="" am="" among="" an="" and="" another="" any="" anyone="" anything.="" appeared="" appreciably="" appropriation...="" appropriation="" aptly="" arby="" are="" article="" as="" asked="" at="" attempt="" audience.="" august="" avatar="" babe="" baby="" back="" bae.="" bae="" be="" beau="" because="" become="" becomes="" been="" before="" begun="" black="" bleaches.="" bleaching="" blog="" blogger="" blues="" boo="" both="" brains="" breaking="" burger="" but="" by="" calcification="" calcifies="" canada="" cannily="" case="" cetera="" circles="" clients="" collaboration="" come="" comments="" common="" condescend="" continues="" coo="" cool="" corporate="" course="" cray="" crazy="" cultural="" current="" cyrus="" database="" date="" dawn="" decade="" december="" defined="" definition="" definitions.="" delivered="" denny="" destoys="" destroyed="" dew="" dicey="" dictionaries="" dictionary="" diminished="" disagree="" disappointing="" discussion="" distaste="" do="" done.="" down-votes="" dropped-letter="" dubious="" dusk.="" each.="" each="" earlier="" eating="" either="" else.="" embrace="" endearment="" english="" ensuing="" entity="" entries="" equal="" esquire="" et="" even="" eventually="" experience="" express="" expressing="" far="" few="" finding="" first="" florida.="" foods="" for="" force-fed.="" force="" forceful="" form="" from="" fully="" fun="" funk="" garden="" garnered="" general="" generalization.="" generally="" genius="" get="" gets="" go="" good="" grammatical="" had="" hands="" has="" hat="" hate="" have="" haynes="" he="" heart="" heavy="" hell="" here="" hip-hop="" hip="" hipness="" his="" hop="" hover="" how="" hut="" ici="" idiosyncratic="" impossible="" impressive="" in-group="" in="" inauthenticity="" incredulity="" inevitable="" initial="" intention="" intercultural="" internet="" investigation="" is="" it="" its="" itself="" jamba="" james="" january="" jargon="" juice="" july="" just="" katy="" keeping="" king="" langsters="" largely="" later="" law="" lexicon.="" like="" likely="" linguist="" ll="" long="" loosely="" loses="" loss="" love="" lover="" lyrical="" made="" magnificently="" main="" mainstream.="" mainstream="" many="" masses="" mean="" meaning="" means="" measured="" media="" medicine="" mentioned="" mild="" miley="" month:="" more="" motto="" mountain="" mourn="" mouse="" music="" my="" natasha="" nearly="" neil="" new="" nonsensical="" normcore="" not="" noting="" notoriously="" of="" offhandedness...an="" official="" officially="" olive="" ome="" on="" one="" or="" origin="" origins="" other="" our="" outs.="" over="" oxford="" pairing="" parse="" part="" particularly="" particulars="" partner="" patients="" pegging="" people="" percolation="" perpetuated="" persists="" personas="" pharrell="" picked="" pizza="" place.="" pointer="" populace="" popular="" proclaimed="" products.="" professionals="" publication="" quoted="" r="" radio="" rap="" read.="" readers="" reat="" release="" rock="" roll="" romantic="" runners-up="" s.="" s="" same="" schnoebelen="" scone="" see.="" seems="" sell="" sense="" separate="" series="" shall="" shares="" she="" shortened="" significant="" similar="" simply="" site="" slacktivism="" slang="" so="" social-media="" social="" solidly="" some="" steinmetz="" story="" strategem.="" strategem="" subcultural="" suffer="" summary="" support="" surprisingly="" sweetie="" technical="" technically="" teenagers="" tends="" term="" that="" the="" their="" them="" theory="" there="" these="" this="" those="" though="" thread:="" through="" time="" to="" told="" tool="" traces="" two="" tyler="" uncommon="" uninspired="" unintelligible="" unknown="" up-votes="" up="" urban="" usage="" use="" used="" usefulness="" user="" vape.="" version="" versions="" very="" video="" voice="" wal-mart="" was.="" was="" way="" ways="" we="" went="" were="" western="" what="" when="" which="" white="" whitman="" who="" whole="" widely="" william="" with="" word.="" word="" words="" would="" writer="" wrote="" ye="" year.="" year="" years="" youtube="" zarinsky=""> Ici Radio Canada
"I'm honored and glad to be of service."
**
Pamela Ivins Dobuler > James
"Well, it is a great sentence.
**
Christine Laing, January 2015
"Bae is a weird case. The hatred of bae seems to have been with it since the beginning. Bae-bashed are all over Twitter. It's one of those hipster things where the real hipsters are making fun. The inappropriate use of "bae" by advertisers who think it "enhances a social media brand" isn't helping much. The irony of having Pizza Hut call someone a word that means "lover" on a medium used to mock the word is too delicious.
Meme: When some gross Pizza tries to call me bae!"
**
Ici Radio Canada
"Bae is bleaching only if one says "this scone is bae" where scone rhymes with cone.
Otherwise, bae is calcifying."
**
DeclanPatrickCoker
"Oh dear Lord Jesus, people having been saying "bae" in the South forever. Let me die with the Philistines."
**
SerenaJoy
"I had no idea Bae was a thing, was still getting over Boo. Is Boo all done now?"...
-snip-
My response to SerenaJoy to her question "Is Boo all done now?" is no, based on the use of the word "boo" in the 2014 and 2015 comments posted in to the discussion thread of Usher & Alicia Key's 2004 R&B song "My Boo". However, a number of those comments were that if that song was released now it would be titled "My Bae" instead of "My Boo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgf2meEX1w.
Also, a comment posted to Pharrell's record "Come Get It Bae" one week ago [in April 2015] includes the referent "boo" (there meaning someone who you are friendly with)
Jen Sworthout
"Pharrell...you're a GENIOUS!!!! THANK U for your creativity boo!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGMj10wOzg
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This concludes Part II of this series.
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
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