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by bee_rider 396 days ago
I think either way it would be unfunny because

1) jive isn’t something many people have encountered nowadays and

2) “internet slang is incomprehensible” is an overdone joke.

1 comments

1 is why I said or an equivalent - you could do the same with pidgin or any creole or, I don't know if this is a PC way to say it, but any kind of 'hood' or 'ghetto' type slang. The joke is just person is 'fluent' in an unlikely dialect/way of speaking. If cockney rhyming slang were more prevalent you could do that, with you know a black American or Asian person or whatever being the unlikely fluent one.

2 is is not really the point, sure it could flop, my point was just that I couldn't imagine it going further than that, not that that would be funny.