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December 16, 2004
What Kind Of A World Do We Live In Where....
2004-12-15 - Wireless Flash Weird News
"Crack Ho" and "Hoochie" Added To Oxford Dictionary
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Hip hop-based words have entered the vernacular of many English speakers and now they have found their way into a prestigious dictionary.
More than 2,000 new and revised word entries have been added to the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary and a small contingent of them come from the P. Diddy and Eminem arena.
For example, the word "benjamin," meaning "a one-hundred dollar bill" and more generally, "large sums of money" made its way onto the list.
Other hip-hop words that were added:
-- "Hoochie," which means "a young woman who is promiscuous or who dresses or behaves in a sexually provocative or overtly seductive manner."
-- "Thugged out" is defined as "resembling a thug in dress or behavior, tough-looking."
-- And finally, the dictionary editors have added "crack ho," which is defined as "a prostitute addicted to crack cocaine."
Dictionary spokesman Jesse Shiedlowe says he expects a lot more hip-hop words to be added in future editions of the dictionary as long as the music genre continues to stay popular.
What has the world come to when piss poor slang finds its way into the Oxford English Dictionary??
SlagleRock Out!
I think that the Oxford dictionary has jumped the shark!
Posted by: delftsman3 at December 16, 2004 11:04 AMI am flabbergasted. Supposedly "hip hop lingo" (bling, bling; crack ho; thugged out; benjamin; jiggy, etc.) has been added to the Oxford dictionary in recognition of words frequently used by a great segment of the African Americans and Hispanic people. Funny the things "they" choose to recognize. Very rarely anything positive! How many hundreds of years has this set us back? Why do we continually fall for the okey doke? This is another form of separatism - to acknowledge the animals' ignorance and make us comfortable with it. It brings to mind my horror when "ain't" was added to the dictionary years ago. It provoked phone calls from each of my daughters to let me know I could no longer tell them not to say ain't because it was added to the dictionary!!!! No one asked me what I thought about these changes? What is the criteria for a word to be added to the dictionary? Who makes these decisions and where are their watchdogs? The whole thing sickens me and degrades our accomplishments. We are allowing ourselves as a people to be dragged (grinning and shuffling all the while) waaaaaaaaaaaay back to the days our ancestors fought and died to flee.
What can be done? What are we going to do?
One, patrisha
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