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by appleflaxen 1377 days ago
Is "whatever" a similar word in any way?

"“Person 1: I was at the whatever down the street when that bad whatever from up the block walked in. But she didn’t say anything.

Person 2: oh that’s a bad whatever”

?

1 comments

I don’t think so. When I read that I don’t substitute the proper words in my head as I would with jawn. Also, “whatever” sounds negative to my ear, whereas jawn would be taken neutrally.