“Jives” means “is talking nonsense” or (archaic) “dances”.
{Tries looking it up} Wikipedia says “jives” can be a term for African American Vernacular English. The Urban Dictionary gives it a bunch of definitions, including both of mine, “jibe”, and forms of African American speech which include a lot of slang, but not any sort of African American speech in general.
On the other hand, the language may have moved on—I keep seeing that mistake (the Urban Dictionary implies it isn’t a mistake), and maybe I should give up.
I still retain a fondness for people who get it right.
Interesting, that jibes* pretty well with my impressions of Toastmasters.
There are other Carnegie courses than the speaking one. This is the one I was thinking of.
*See comment below for the distinction between “jives” and “jibes”. It ain’t cool beein’ no jive turkey!
Nitpick: “jibes” means “is consistent with”.
“Jives” means “is talking nonsense” or (archaic) “dances”.
{Tries looking it up} Wikipedia says “jives” can be a term for African American Vernacular English. The Urban Dictionary gives it a bunch of definitions, including both of mine, “jibe”, and forms of African American speech which include a lot of slang, but not any sort of African American speech in general.
On the other hand, the language may have moved on—I keep seeing that mistake (the Urban Dictionary implies it isn’t a mistake), and maybe I should give up.
I still retain a fondness for people who get it right.
haha… thanks!