Posted on 06/03/2023 2:02:04 PM PDT by lowbridge
One of the world’s major printers of English-language dictionaries is preparing a volume for language associated with African Americans.
The Oxford Dictionary of African American English aims to define 1,000 terms by March 2025 — potentially educating a broader audience on the meaning of English terms associated with the ethnic group.
Oxford University Press provided 10 words to The New York Times in a preview of the project.
Harvard University academic Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the project.
The dictionary includes some words that could be referred to as slang, others that reference events in black history, and other terms that allude to music and expression in black culture.
Americans of all races might recognize some of the terms from rap music.
“Grill” is defined as “a removable or permanent dental overlay, typically made of silver, gold or another metal and often inset with gemstones, which is worn as jewelry.”
“Bussin” is defined as an adjective meaning “tasty or delicious” or alternatively “busy, crowded or lively.”
Other words appear more antiquated, referencing events that precede the abolition of slavery in the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
The term “cakewalk,” used to describe a easy task, is defined as one with its origins from slavery.
“A contest in which black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs, typically judged by a plantation owner,” the term is defined.
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“Dindonuffins” should be the first word.
What about “Idindunuffin”?
Muvfuq show be the first word.
We need separate !
“Gibsmedat”
You know who that is don't you?
Is it my racist white privilege that shows when I express the understanding that such appliances are sported by pushers, pimps and gang bangers?
It seems the foolishness of the cult of wokism knows no bounds at all.
The KKK couldn’t come up with a better way to keep black people down than to encourage black people to sound like blithering idiots when they talk.
Wow, they are racist.
Separate, but equal languages.
Gates is the guy who kicked off the Obama caliphates war against cops that resulted in countless black lives lost and cops lives lost whereas today it’s even worse with the defund the cops movement which has made crime skyrocket. All because this racist piece of sh*t didn’t like that cop was only doing his job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy
Hey Oxford, Up your bum.
How’s that?
Obama phone 📞
1. Yo
2. Yo momma
3. Mofo
4. Shieght
5. Mo Money
6. They be bitches
7. Didn’t Do Nuffin
8. Who’s your daddy
9. 9 mm
10. Wheels be mine Jack
Know what I’m sayin’?
Hah! Wait till Biden tries to tell us he was instrumental in the creation of the first “African-American Dictionary!”
“I’s there when it was put for’rd. That poor cop could’n unnerstan’ a word those two were sayin’ to him the whole time. I said, ‘Son, you need a dictionary to unnerstan’ what my friends here are tryna tell ya?” He just looked at me. The res’ is histree. Anyway...”
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