NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong
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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.