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We'll Never Need to Explain What Our "Kitchen " is To Another White Person—Again.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:22 pm
We'll Never Need to Explain What Our "Kitchen " is To Another White Person—Again.
Your days of explaining what words like “bussin” and “grill” mean to white people may be soon be coming to an end. Instead, you can tell them to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
You heard that right. The new dictionary, which is a partnership between the Oxford English Dictionary and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, will be made up entirely of words created by or reinvented by Black folks.
And you already know there are plenty to choose from. Researchers are pulling words from classic works of Black literature, slave narratives, song lyrics and even the latest rants on Black Twitter. They plan to publish the first 1000 definitions in March 2025. But say people can continue to send in suggestions for new entries online long after the first edition goes out.
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“Every speaker of American English borrows heavily from words invented by African Americans, whether they know it or not. Words with African origins such as ‘ ‘goober’, ‘gumbo’ and ‘okra’ survived the Middle Passage along with our African ancestors. And words that we take for granted today, such as ‘cool’ and ‘crib,’ ‘hokum’ and ‘diss,’ ‘hip’ and ‘hep,’ ‘bad,’ meaning ‘good,’ and ‘dig,’ meaning ‘to understand’—these are just a tiny fraction of the words that have come into American English from African American speakers, neologisms that emerged out of the Black Experience in this country, over the last few hundred years,” he said.
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:25 pm to djmed
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grill (noun): A removable or permanent dental overlay, typically made of silver, gold or another metal and often inset with gemstones, which is worn as jewelry.
kitchen (n.): The hair at the nape of the neck, which is typically shorter, kinkier and considered more difficult to style.
cakewalk (n.): 1. A contest in which Black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs, typically judged by a plantation owner. The winner would receive some type of cake. 2. Something that is considered easily done, as in This job is a cakewalk.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:25 pm to djmed
We living in the movie Idiocracy.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:26 pm to djmed
"The Root" could just as easily be titled "We Be Raciss"
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:26 pm to djmed
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“Every speaker of American English borrows heavily from words invented by African Americans, whether they know it or not. Words with African origins such as ‘ ‘goober’, ‘gumbo’ and ‘okra’ survived the Middle Passage along with our African ancestors. And words that we take for granted today, such as ‘cool’ and ‘crib,’ ‘hokum’ and ‘diss,’ ‘hip’ and ‘hep,’ ‘bad,’ meaning ‘good,’ and ‘dig,’ meaning ‘to understand’—these are just a tiny fraction of the words that have come into American English from African American speakers, neologisms that emerged out of the Black Experience in this country, over the last few hundred years,” he said in English.
Isn't this reparations in a nutshell? 99.999% of his life is Western and he thinks we owe him for "hep", whatever that is. I guess he thinks we need some "hep" understanding their contributions? Yes, we get it: paper bags, traffic lights we don't use, and peanut butter. Now give me a few months to list all of ours.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:29 pm to djmed
Doesn't the urban dictionary already cover this?
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:30 pm to djmed
quote:Is it OK to "reinvent" a word from the black dictionary for Hispanics, Asians, etc.?
words created by or reinvented by Black folks
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:32 pm to djmed
Meh.
I use words I choose, and I avoid words that don’t resonate with me.
I’m more annoyed by liberal verbiage and phrases(e.g., heteronormativity, folx, toxic masculinity, rage farming) than I am by cultural colloquialisms.
I use words I choose, and I avoid words that don’t resonate with me.
I’m more annoyed by liberal verbiage and phrases(e.g., heteronormativity, folx, toxic masculinity, rage farming) than I am by cultural colloquialisms.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:34 pm to djmed
I’ve never asked a block person what any word means.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:36 pm to djmed
Gumbo and okra are really African words?
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:38 pm to dgnx6
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cakewalk (n.): 1. A contest in which Black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs, typically judged by a plantation owner. The winner would receive some type of cake. 2. Something that is considered easily done, as in This job is a cakewalk.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this word then be removed from use, not celebrated? Why would we celebrate a word that has its roots in slavery like this??!?!?!?
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:38 pm to djmed
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will be made up entirely of words created by or reinvented by Black folks.
Looking forward to the new Al Sharpton ebonics version Axe me again, and I'll tell you the same
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:39 pm to djmed
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“Every speaker of American English borrows heavily from words invented by African Americans
they built everything
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:41 pm to djmed
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Black Twitter.
Elon is smart as frick. Giving black people their own Twitter.
Posted on 5/25/23 at 4:45 pm to djmed
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But say people can continue to send in suggestions for new entries online long after the first edition goes out.
*cracks knuckles*
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