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aave English Pronunciation en /ˈɑːveɪ, æv/ en /ˈeɪ eɪ viː ˌiː/ Proper noun en African American Vernacular English en African-American Vernacular English. en AAE<id:African American English> < English<id:English language> en w:The Guardian Keza MacDonald https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/15/pushing-buttons-uncslop-unc-millennials-game-culture 15 April 2026 What the heck is an unc game? It didn’t take me long to discover that “unc” (short for uncle) is the latest semi-disparaging gen Z name for anyone over about 30. Further back, it originated as AAVE slang. “Uncslop” refers to the implicitly terrible games beloved by this older generation of players; basically anything made in the 1990s or 2000s, from Knights of the Old Republic to World of Warcraft. An unc game, then, is a game predominantly played by millennials (and older) – and Marathon is one of them. A week or so later, I read Emanuel Maiberg’s article for 404 Media, which dug into the game’s unc credentials. https://web.archive.org/web/20260417091251/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/15/pushing-buttons-uncslop-unc-millennials-game-culture Further reading African American Vernacular English en 4-letter abbreviations en English Sociolinguistics