{"id":13704,"date":"2022-08-01T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:10:44","slug":"afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"Afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not an aftermath<\/a> exactly, but preoccupied still with words, words, words, this much more than a mere afterthought: the NYT<\/em> reports<\/a> under the headline “Hip, Woke, Cool” – also three words – that Henry Louis Gates as director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research<\/a> at Harvard is editing in cooperation with Oxford University Press a new lexicon dedicated to the richness of the African American language, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English<\/em> (ODAAE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a long way from the Harvard of Longfellow and Lowell to that of Henry Louis Gates, and as far from Trench’s mid-nineteenth century idiosyncratic glossary to this one in planning across the pond and in this 21st century, with all the creativity, nuances and melodies that time and place bring to the English language in all its variations; a vibrant reminder of the evolutionary power of language as ideas and experience are given form and rhythm. A terrific project, I think, and with a multidisciplinary character and application; projected completion in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a quick reference, some resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n