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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Truth!
The term “cakewalk,” used to describe a easy task, is defined as one with its origins from slavery.Even the Brits knew what a cake walk was near a hundred years ago.“A contest in which black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs, typically judged by a plantation owner,” the term is defined.
Tickets are sold to participants, and a path of numbered squares is laid out on a rug, with one square per ticket sold. The participants walk around the path in time to music, which plays for a duration and then stops. A number is drawn at random and called out, and the person standing on that number wins a cake as a prize (hence the name).We had cakewalks in carnivals at our elementary school. All of the mothers would bake cakes and bring them for prizes at the cake-walk.During the 1930s, the English poet John Betjeman described St Giles' Fair in Oxford as follows:
It is about the biggest fair in England. The whole of St Giles' … is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.[2]
Fortheloveofalgore.
No.
They should not forget to include words such as BABY-MAMMA as such words illustrate the contribution of blacks to current American culture.
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Is this necessary? Probably not. All this stuff is on the internet.
Is it going to make money? Nope.
Will Oxford hire a couple of folk to add thirty or forty words a year lifted from Rap music and the latest Bravo reality shows. Yup.
Mostly these things are virtue signaling that is nothing more than a circle jerk for idiots.
Sounds like Oxford is gettin’ up in somebody’s grill ...
My favs:
Ho and Bottom B%$#@.
I dare them to put those in the “dictionary”.
Axe
I wonder if they’ll have a word to describe people who really do the all the work that affirmative action hires can’t.
It’ll be interesting to compare this dictionary with the more complete works already published in Wakanda.
Obama and his buddy Henry Louis Gates Jr. are the definition of racist Uncle Toms.
Haters of all others of THEIR OWN RACE!
Wanting to keep them all in poverty and wirhout ANY power.
Obama and Gates Jr. are the archetypes of Black slave owners!
Well it’s Obama’s party that created the KKK.
First time I’ve seen Obama operate from his 1/2 whiteness.
Gates and Sanger leaders in trying to whipe out the poor blacks, and Gates whites too!
What Obama doesn’t know is that they want him dead too!
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apologies. That was pretty bad.
I gotta ask: who’s going to buy this book? Brothers in the ‘hood? Yeah, right...
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