Word: slanging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...white man from an older generation chose the wrong slang, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right to say it. If you don't like what someone has to say, don't listen. Truly offensive speech does not dignify a response. Daniel J. Graeber, Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...good ole days of feminism, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan would have been as visible and vocal as Jackson and Sharpton. In the current storm, sexism has taken second place to racism. Jean M. Alberti, LOMBARD, ILLINOIS, U.S. A white man from an older generation chose the wrong slang to use, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right to say it. If you don't like what someone has to say, don't listen. Truly offensive speech does not dignify a response. Daniel J. Graeber, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, U.S. Many...
...Latin music, however, most of the best reggaeton is being produced in this country (especially if you include American Commonwealth territory Puerto Rico). This American connection is one of the reasons that hip-hop has had such a big influence on the genre already, and why English words and slang phrases regularly creep into reggaeton verses. While Luny Tunes-produced “Gasolina” might be the genre’s “Rapper’s Delight,” crossovers can happen in many directions, especially for a genre like reggaeton, at the crossroads...
...Iraqi army, Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers. Moving around the area requires learning a peculiar patois. Upon arriving at a routine checkpoint, you are typically greeted with a succession of questions and demands, issued in Georgian ("gamarjoba," or hello), Spanish ("amigo"), English ("badge"), Arabic ("silah," or weapon) and Iraqi slang ("mamnoon," or thank you). During the course of a recent day of meetings in the Green Zone, I was sniffed by dogs six times, sent my bags through four metal detectors, was photographed once by a body scanner that can see through my clothes and was patted down too many...
When Eddie Palmieri plays the piano, it’s a religious experience. Jazz, deriving from 1920s slang meaning “sex” or “orgasm,” is often exuberant, but Palmieri, with his whole body convulsing as he played the piano, pushed jazz to its orgiastic, ecstatic limits at last Saturday’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Connection in Sanders Theatre...