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A similar publication, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, appeared in 1945.
1980 "Jive talk at the top of the charts"--Washington Post headline for an article about "Rapper's Delight."
"Very articulate" presupposes that I am expected to be inarticulate, as if all - or that matter, any - black people talk "jive talk" a la the two dudes in the movie Airplane!
It is a bittersweet, rousing message: Sometimes the ultimate jive talk is the jive we tell ourselves.
"See you later alligator" did not originate with Bill Haley and rock and roll: "See you later" entered the American language in 1870 and had been adapted to jive talk by the 1930s by adding alligator and the response, "In a while, crocodile".
The focus was particularly evident during the first night, when Wayans and a buffed-up, swaggering Jada Pinkett seemed to be trying to out-do one another in the jive talk. This could have been due partly to Wayans' nervousness and early lack of interview savvy, which had already begun to improve by night three.
The Jive Talk in' front men have been paying tribute to the Bee Gees music for more than 20 years.
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