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I don't give a shit if "peak" is bottom tier niggercoal ebonics. I'm going to keep using it anyway, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.
 
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SnowyGroyp said:
were people in the 1800s really saying things like "this is so cooked" and "i'm cooked" because it feels black
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no I'm saying the black version is like cooking good crack on a stove à la Gordon Ramsay (positive, constructive), so it's different than the modern anapodoton "cooked" which is derived from the idiom "[one's] goose is cooked", referring to a problem that is beyond resolution, which has appeared in English literature in various forms for 200+ years.
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(presented with pronouns to show correlation to the root phrase, which could otherwise be explained by recipes for cooking geese or something)

"he cooked" = he did something good (black)
"he is cooked" = he is condemned (white)

It does sound black (and maybe that's enough to categorize it as "ebonics") but because the ebonic version and the white-derived idiomatic term with an opposite meaning reached mass usage concurrently, everyone says both and may assume the same origin.
 
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i understood what you were saying -- i am just skeptical that "he is cooked" was a thing people said, "goose is cooked" notwithstanding.
 
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when someone says “give this man his flowers” i wanna commit mass merder
 


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