We turn accents, slang, and catchphrases into a guessing game and realize our “normal” words don’t mean the same thing everywhere. The deeper we go, the clearer it gets that language carries our regions, our families, our church upbringing, and our baggage.
• our origin stories and how church culture shapes speech
• a slang guessing game using family phrases and regional sayings
• how meanings shift by region, generation, and context
• Urban Dictionary versus what we were taught at home
• church call-and-response, proverbs, and why they stick
• the line between funny slang and disrespectful language
• reclaiming words and dealing with backhanded compliments
• what our vocabulary would “say” about us years from now
like, comment, and subscribe, and let us know in the comments what were some of the words that you used growing up and what influenced the way that you spoke.
