Woke Language

Ooo!

say. I hate this woke thing

For goodness sake ignore all this tripe,
too much nonsense going on in the
world. There are more important things happening like living.

I don't think anyone anywhere has said it is forbidden to use the thumbs up emoji. Why do independent older women need to be 'allowed' to do anything, and who is 'controlling' us?

I think the truth is that this is another way in which younger people differentiate themselves from older ones. They roll their eyes at expressions that they find dated, just as we did, and just as their children will do in their turn.

People can choose whether to be offended or not, just as they can choose whether to use the symbol or not. It is often useful to know whether things we do might be perceived in ways other than we intend them, though, so that our choices are informed ones.

wibblywobblywobblebottom

Do people still use the term woke? It's American isn't it?

It did originate in America. It was first used in a song by a black American blues singer in 1938.
In the song it is used as stay awake to racial intentions.
If I remember correctly.

Thank you for updating me LucyAnna.

What a load of woke rubbish! No wonder young people have mental health problems. Get a life - get off your phone and actually talk to someone !! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

TiggyW

What a load of woke rubbish! No wonder young people have mental health problems. Get a life - get off your phone and actually talk to someone !! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

Who are you addressing with this comment? Did you send it from your phone? Were you talking to someone at the time, and was the post sent from beyond the grave?

Wyllow3

Would someone calling "woke!!!"

like to explain how on earth this particular debate on 👍 has anything whatsoever to do with "woke?"

That's what I was thinking. Isn't this to do with the changing perception of symbols, in the same way as words (which are only symbols after all) change in meaning. "Gay" comes to mind, but there are others.

Doodledog

TiggyW

What a load of woke rubbish! No wonder young people have mental health problems. Get a life - get off your phone and actually talk to someone !! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

Who are you addressing with this comment? Did you send it from your phone? Were you talking to someone at the time, and was the post sent from beyond the grave?

They walk into it every time, don’t they 🤦🏼‍♀️

Think I'm going to start say "spiffing".
"Yes, thank you, that's spiffing!"
"Would you mind setting the table for me Darling? That would be quite spiffing!"

love that Nanny27 and can remember it being used..

I use the thumbs up to let someone know I have read their email which doesn't need a reply..
I haven't come to terms with "woke" Who decided to use the past tense of wake in a different context. What does it mean?

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It’s the complete misuse of the word woke which pees me off 👎👎👎

I have a number of “woke” friends (whatever that means 🤣) and we use a thumbs up all the time - and my Gen Z grandkids use it!

Good idea. GNers will recognise one another when we hear the code word . How spiffing would that be?

Doodledog

Good idea. GNers will recognise one another when we hear the code word . How spiffing would that be?

Sorry - that was to Nanny27. I started to reply then went to answer the door and the thread moved on before I posted.

Agree

Just more 'interesting stuff' about 'wokism'. You can interpret an emoji as you like, it's a picture! 👍😂

TiggyW

What a load of woke rubbish! No wonder young people have mental health problems. Get a life - get off your phone and actually talk to someone !! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

The die was cast in 1895 when The Post Office trunk telephone system was opened to the public.

We've been 'on the phone' ever since, and no-one is going to "get off" it in order to secure a "life" that you appear to think they don't have.

Because the phone is now an integral part of it.

We’re pretty much all asleep here.

The definition of woke: Aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).

Language evolves and in the same way "Sick" means something completely different these days, I suspect "Woke" means something different to an awful lot of people. The definition will probably change officially at some point.

Apparently, thumbs up and by association it's emoji, is rude in the following places:-

Middle East, Latin America and West Africa where it = middle finger.

Afganistan, Iran, Greece and parts of Italy where it means "up yours"

Surprisingly, it is also considered rude in Australia.

Apologies if somebody has posted about this before, I did scroll through but I may have missed it.

Me & mum use it to let each other know we are ok, I will never stop using it- saves me going into long winded texts.

Mt61

Me & mum use it to let each other know we are ok, I will never stop using it- saves me going into long winded texts.

Saying that I wouldn’t use in the street

Indigo8

Surprisingly, it is also considered rude in Australia.

That came as a big surprise to my Australian family and friends (Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide) Perhaps it the same as with the UK. Some find it rude in OZ and others don’t.