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Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/9/16 8:40 PM, Califbill wrote:
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On 5/9/16 2:42 PM, Califbill wrote:
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On 5/9/16 1:17 PM, Califbill wrote:
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On 5/9/16 11:42 AM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/9/16 1:40 AM, Califbill wrote:
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/7/2016 8:31 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/7/16 8:23 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 May 2016 20:06:30 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

As a liberal arts grad, I am aware of the vagaries of
language, as is
the OED:

? ghetto, n.

(?g?t??)

Also 7 gheto.

[Of uncertain etym., perh. f. It. getto foundry, as the
first ghetto
founded in Venice in 1516 was on the site of a foundry.]

1.1 The quarter in a city, chiefly in Italy, to which
the Jews were
restricted.

1611 Coryat Crudities 230 The place where the whole
fraternity of
the Iews dwelleth together, which is called the
Ghetto. Ibid. 234
Walking in the Court of the Ghetto, I casually met with
a Iewish Rabbin
that spake good Latin. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav.
(1760) II. 76 A
particular part of the city, noted for houses of
ill-fame, was assigned
by Cosmo I. to the Jews, for their particular quarter,
or ghetto.
1879 Farrar St. Paul I. 5 The crowded ghetto of a Pagan
capital.
1887 Dowden Shelley II. vii. 277 An obscure quarter of
Rome, hard by
the gate of the Ghetto.

2.2 transf. and fig. A quarter in a city, esp. a thickly
populated slum
area, inhabited by a minority group or groups, usu. as a
result of
economic or social pressures; an area, etc., occupied by
an isolated
group; an isolated or segregated group, community, or area.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. i. 2 The
particular Ghetto
that is the dark background upon which our pictures will
be cast is of
voluntary formation. 1897 Literature 27 Nov. 180/1 The
Farringdon-road collection of barrows has become the
veriest Ghetto of
bookland. 1908 J. London Martin Eden (1910) xxxvi.
310 They
dismounted and plunged off to the right into the heart
of the
working-class ghetto. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 8/3
The people?have
grown superior to the banal excitement and cheap
attractions of the
densely crowded areas. The day on which the tramways
went over
Westminster Bridge recorded the unlocking of the London
ghettos. 1937
Times 6 Oct. 13/7 Part of the benches [in the Warsaw
Polytechnic] have
been marked for students belonging to a union almost
exclusively
controlled by ‘Aryans’, and others for the Jewish
students' union, while
a few seats for non-union students are left unmarked.?
The establishment
of the ‘bench ghetto’ is an important precedent, unknown
even in
Germany. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 713/3 On
records the Coloured
jazz musicians still played largely for their race; in
life they played
for the immigrants into the Negro city ghettoes. 1961
L. Mumford City
in History xvi. 493 The suburb?was a segregated
community?a sort of
green ghetto dedicated to the elite. 1961 Listener 7
Dec. 1000/3 [The
television programme] ‘Bookstand’, (November 30),
capriciously shifted
to the Tuesday ghetto, had one memorable item. 1966
Ibid. 29 Sept.
454/1 The ghetto is one of two in which most of
Chicago's Negroes, who
make up a quarter of the city's population, are forced
to live. 1968
N.Y. Rev. Books 11 July 34/1 The ‘breakdown of the
Catholic ghetto’ is a
good thing, but the breakdown of intellectual ghettos at
M.I.T. and
Harvard might be, educationally, an even better thing.

3.3 attrib. and Comb.

1892 I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto (1893) 2 The
Ghetto?becomes only a
swarming-place for the poor and the ignorant.? Such
people are their own
Ghetto gates. 1903 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 5//2 What he
calls the Ghetto
face and the Ghetto eye, observable enough in
immigrants, cannot be
detected after a generation or two on American soil.
1908 J. London
Martin Eden (1910) xxxviii. 328 Tell them why you don't
want Socialism.
Tell them what you think about them and their ghetto
ethics. 1941
Koestler Scum of Earth 48 The country which was the
first to introduce
yellow ghetto benches in its schools. 1949 ? Promise
& Fulfilment ii.
iv. 251 The victory of the new type of Israelis grown on
Palestine soil
over the obstinate fanaticism of ghetto-bred
politicians. Ibid. iii.
i. 294 The same ghetto-heritage of suspicion. 1968
Guardian 24 Oct.
10/2 Those ancestors of today's ghetto-dwellers came to
areas where,
unlike the South, there was no discrimination. 1969
Ibid. 17 Sept.
10/2 Catholics are not going to abandon the ghetto
mentality which the
events of the past month have created unless Stormont
shows some belated
signs of having the stomach for dealing with Protestant
extremists.
1971 Radio Times 16 Sept. 37/5 Social workers are becoming
increasingly worried by the ‘ghetto mentality’ in the
deprived areas of
our cities.

b.3.b Special Comb. ghetto blaster slang (orig. U.S.), a
large portable
stereo radio (and cassette player), esp. one on which
(Black) popular
music is played loudly.

[1982 N.Y. Times 30 May 46/3 He and his sextet, the
Ghetto Blasters,
brought their mixture of harmonized Southern rock and
rhythm-and-blues
to the Bottom Line.] 1983 Times 27 May 10/3 The
growing high-street
popularity of Sony Walkmans and portable stereo cassette
players
(‘*ghetto blasters’). 1983 Daily Mirror 4 June 13/1 A
beat throbbing
from a ghetto-blaster—a giant, portable stereo
system. 1983 Christian
Science Monitor 27 Sept. 21 Six feet tall, 16 years old,
and carrying a
‘ghetto blaster’.

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Draft partial entry June 2006

? ghetto fabulous n. and adj. orig. U.S. (a) n. an
ostentatious or
flamboyant lifestyle or manner of dress, associated with
the hip-hop
subculture and characterized as a marker of status in
economically
disadvantaged urban neighborhoods; (b) adj. of, relating
to, or
exemplifying this style (variously viewed approvingly or
disapprovingly).

1996 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. xiii. 4/2 Founded by Andre
Harrell, it
merged the softer approach of rhythm and blues with the
hard edge of
hip-hop to create what Mr. Harrell called ‘New Jack
Swing’—or, as he
describes it, ‘high Style urban black life a.k.a.
*ghetto fabulous’.
1996 Billboard (Nexis) 4 May Horace is the kind of guy
who can wear
a mink coat and Versace shades. His style is ghetto
fabulous?. He comes
from the 'hood, but he has class. 1998 Plain Dealer
(Cleveland, Ohio)
(Nexis) 21 Apr. 5 b, Blige held the crowd in the palm of
her hand
through every lazy step as she sauntered across the
stage in ghetto
fabulous outfits. 2001 GTA Today 12 Jan. 10/4 Avoid
red fox fur (not
hip), fluffy coats (too ghetto fabulous), and anything
ankle length.
2003 Boys Toys Aug. 105/3 You should also try Vana
Talinn, a
mega-strong, very sweet liqueur. It's usually served
with coffee over
ice or if you're ghetto fabulous, with champagne.
2004 Vanity Fair
June 60/3 [His] style is a combination of pimp,
ghetto-fabulous, and
make-believe dandy.

And also:

Golden Ghetto

As opposed to a traditional 'ghetto' community that is
destroyed by
poverty, the golden ghetto's problems stem from excess

Pretty weak. Ghetto still means a place where Jews or
poor people
live.
The fact that a few rappers embraced the term does not
change the
meaning ... unless you think "nigga" is now OK since
Larry Wilmore
called the president "my nigga".

There are plenty of references that expand the meaning of
ghetto beyond
what you think it means.

Point is, in normal conversation or writing, even by the
"highly
educated" ... "Ghetto" has only one normally used meaning.

The original meaning or the evolved meanings? Language is
fluid.

Yup, the old meaning of ghetto has been washed away.

No, it is still there, but the meanings have expanded.
Language is fluid.

It is still there, but the old meaning just is not used these
days in
normal communication. Maybe you should have taken some better
courses.

Perhaps it isn't used among you and your fellow
semi-illiterates...but
it is still used.

Semi illiterate? Just because you failed any serious science and
math
courses.

No, Bilious, I did not *fail* any serious science and math courses. I
did have a rough time with a physical chem class, but I more than
passed
it with a "gentleman's hook."

So, social promotion.

No, Bilious, this wasn't a case of you skating through high school. I
was graduated with a 3.92 out of 4.0 average, enough to help me get a
nice fellowship from my employer and grad school.

I skated through high school on a 150 IQ. Was an alternate for West
Point
on competitive exams by local congressman. Have a degree in
engineering.
Can write reports. Made enough money to retire before 60. Never
declared
Bankruptcy, let alone twice. Maybe you should have gone to a better
university, or at,least studied something besides liberal arts basket
weaving.

Sure, Bilious...your "IQ" is readily apparent.

18 minutes to reply with a lame attack? Did you have to take a dump?
It certainly wasn't time spent writing a check to the IRS, eh?