“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.” — Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011 [Image source]
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“In Britain these days ‘respect’ is the most debased word in the English language; each year numerous murders result from the notion that the perpetrators had been treated with insufficient respect by someone whom they promptly stabbed. The same thing has been going on in America where, I’m guessing, the verb ‘to diss’ originated.”

— Geoff Dyer’s Year In Reading 2011

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