Interesting...I didn't know there were
ghetto dialects, but I seem to have found one.
Around here, "break yo'self" is more like a
threat to
shut up or face the consequences, as in "You better
shut up 'cause you about to
break yo'self..." I've never heard it in the
imperative like that. We do use
Step Off,
Step Down,
Jump Back,
Get Back,
Shut Up and
Fuck Off as completely interchangeable; actually,
extemporaneous architecture of these general phrases is
not uncommon--so I guess, eventually, I'll hear "break yo'self" in the
correct everythingian context. Pretty much any
motion and any
direction are game if you're mad enough:
Fling off!
Fly back, yo. I've even heard (twice)
Flip down and
Back left, motherfucker. Then you get some
niggas who just don't
give a damn about
objective meaning, and they come out with shit like, "Go
be (or act like)
somebody";
"Slide off me"; "Get
outta my pants" and even "Let go'a
my dick, bro."
I don't claim to
understand them, but when you're dealing with
ebonics, the
specifics are hardly the
issue. It's
all vowels half the time anyway.