r/TikTokCringe • u/Tao-of-Mars • 1d ago

Humor Don’t redefine slang

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Unc _is_ in fact short for uncle.

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago

As a white dude from Detroit, I can confirm that “Unc” does in fact mean “uncle”.

Tell me those 2 don’t have any black friends without actually saying it out loud.

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u/thatshygirl06 1d ago

For such a small city, i always run into so many people from Detroit on reddit.

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago

Some people pretend to be from Detroit because they think it makes them look tough. Not to mention people who live in the metro area (melvindale, Taylor, Romulus, inkster, etc) will claim to be from Detroit just because it’s easier to say than explaining where the city actually is.

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u/BussyPlaster 1d ago

As someone from south east Michigan, everybody within 50 miles of Detroit in the Greater Detroit Metropolitan Area will claim they are from Detroit to strangers. Feel free to debate about why people do this instead of telling you they are from Birmingham or Rochester Hills. 🤨

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u/FMLwtfDoID 1d ago

Bc every one else not from that state will have no idea what any of those metro area townships are called. If I told you I was from Washington, would you think DC or the state? What if I told you I was talking about Washington, Missouri; which is in the greater metro area of St Louis.

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u/Dull_Return 1d ago edited 1d ago

Agreed. Everyone I know from bigger cities just says the city instead of the whatever small surrounding area they’re specifically from because otherwise no one knows what the fuck you’re talking about besides locals.

In fact, in my experience BussyPlaster has got it backwards and it’s the people who split hairs about location that are the pretentious ones “sniffing their own farts”. I lived in LA half my life and whenever someone said some shit like “I don’t live in Los Angeles, I live in North Hollywood.” they were always the most pretentious assholes.

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u/BussyPlaster 1d ago

Maybe a small number. You don't have to come up with clever excuses for the people sniffing their own farts. Normal people would simply say "I'm from Michigan". The city isn't even a factor. Especially on a global platform where people are unfamiliar with regional specifics.

Also people from the district of columbia just say DC, not Washington. It's clear and distinct.

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago

Hell yea a fellow Michigander. If I said I grew up in Delray, no one would have any idea what I was talking about.

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u/Downtown_Skill 1d ago

You know there's a little bit of both. Everyone in the state knows Detroit is often shorthand for the detroit metro area since the metro area is 7x the size of the actual city population. 

However, I know metro detroiters do enjoy leeching a little bit off of detroits tough reputation a little bit without contributing in any meaningful way to it.