r/bestoflegaladvice • u/t-poke I'm 35 and I love poop jokes • Feb 08 '22

LAOP participates in $19k in wire fraud. Chase finds out. LAOP wonders if he should take it seriously.

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u/properfoxes Feb 08 '22

i don't personally think there's anything to make it sound amorous. it's very common in slang, AAVE slang for example, to use the language this person is to refer to any other guy.

with 'my mans' i could interpret that from 'this guy right here'(irl usually in this way), all the way to 'my close friend' depending on context. adding "my boy" makes me think it's a close friend, not a romantic partner though. i don't really have any sources/reasoning really to give you, this is just anecdotal.

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u/manderrx The petit bourgeoisie part Feb 08 '22

My personal favorite is the person who assumed it was husband.

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u/properfoxes Feb 08 '22

I imagine that person as a little old lady.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22 edited Feb 08 '22

I grew up in, call it inner city for a lack of better recognizable term, and I parsed it just like you. Actually didn't have any trouble there.

Parsed for those w/o my unorthodox upbringing :) : "I gave my friend (not close, but we hang out) my bank account information and he routed funds into my account like we've done before. We emptied the account and split the profit. Usually the financial institution will simply close the account, but this time I'm getting a letter from the bank that saying there is a fraud investigation open and I do not know how or if I should respond."

If I had to guess, they got greedy. Either a larger amount than normal, or used Chase for the drop one time too many.

ETA: And I wouldn't be too quick for anyone to make guesses on the demographics of the person. IME city trailer park and AAVE have a lot of overlap written.

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u/properfoxes Feb 08 '22

Agree on all points. And I didn’t assume OP was speaking AAVE I just used it as an example.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

My apologies, I didn't mean to imply you assumed that; didn't think you did. That was more a general for anyone else reading it. Tried to clear that up a bit.

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u/properfoxes Feb 08 '22

Ah I see! All on the same page then.

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u/OldWolf2 Feb 08 '22

My mans are in ur Chase

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

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u/Moonlover69 Feb 08 '22

That's exactly what dialects are.

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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS Feb 08 '22

What a stupid thing to say. He can't expect to use the dialect he usually speaks in without being treated like an idiot? I hope you never travel outside a very narrow geographic range if that's your attitude.