what go around come around?

[Terrance]

JBFRAME at aol.com wrote:
> 
> What go around come around?
> 
> Terrance be gettin into ebonics?
> How utterly cool.  I be underestimatin the boy.

Dude, like, well, like I'm like doing mimicry?
Like a deliberate imitation of the speech and mannerisms of someone
else. 


Like, I be doin dis fo authenticiTEE, sometime it be ridicue, other time
it be jus fo rhetorical Effect. know what i'm sayin? so like, if you
check out some of them rapping cats on the radio you gonna notice that
they be quoting somebody exactly like the man they be mimicking, like
they be gettin tone of voice, and they ge gettin the gestures, and they
even be gettin the particula idiom and language characteristic right.
you got to get it right. now don't try this at home with your wife cause
she ain't gonna be down wit. now what i'm sayin, son? 

here go a black female talkin bout her no go sorry ass man 

"Like he come tellin me this old mess bout {here now the speaker shifts
to what educated folk that study such things in linguistics labs calls
restatin & imitatin} 'Well, baby, if you just give me a chance, Ima have
it together pretty soon.' 
That's his word, you know, always talking bout having something
'together.'"

now what go around come around ain't ebonics, neither. 
its a proverb. 

proverb use in african-american talk, and in africa too for that matter,
serve as channels for indirect confrontation. the speaker masks his or
her statement in sacred or secular proverbs -- "de arms of flesh will
fail you", "a house divided cannot stand", "wata more than flowa". 

"what go around come around"  is the most frequently used proverb in the
african-american community.  

close behind it is 

"you reap what you sow" "what go up come down" "a bird in the hand" 
"what happens in the dark must come to light" 

these all be pretty popular in american talk generally anyways. 

like 

one bad apple
the blind lead
the empty wagon make the most noise
two heads are better (this, I think, can be traced to greece)
he that pay the piper
you can't teach an old dog
one monkey don't stop no show
apple don't fall too far from the tree
you can lead a horse
birds of a feather (aristotle says this)
the blacker the berry the sweeter the taste
don't lie with the dead
don't let a bitch out pick you on your own field
beauty be only skin deep

;-)

smiling faces sometimes lie