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Something that said Mahmoud El-Kati The Hiptionary Dwight Hobbes Spokesman-Recorder MN Scholar, historian, educator, lecturer, activist and community griot, Mahmoud El-Kati is the living, breathing resource. He has taught at Macalester College, Metro State University and Minneapolis North High School, enlightening classes and workshops on, among other subjects, African-American history, American social movements, African-American folklore and social history of jazz. Co-founder of the annual conference of Pan-African Mankato State University, received the Sankofa Foundation Stairstep Award sustained and strong commitment to the Twin Cities African American community. El-Kati has written numerous articles, essays and reviews for the Times of New York, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, Insight News and The Times of Nigeria in gang activity, African Americans and sports, Ebonics, the "myth of race" and more. Recipient of the National Association of Black Storytellers Hurston 'Zora Neale Award, his books include Apartheid: Why and what is it?, The myth of race and the reality of racism and the book for young children Zola Brightness: A History of Kwanzaa. The Hiptionary: Survey African American Speech patterns with a compendium of key words and phrases (Papyrus Press, $ 12.00) is new from Mahmoud El-Kati. It is a fascinating examination of what, at first sight inactive occurrence – Everyday language that might well be called Americanese. In what is spoken in the United States changed significantly in terms of English that is spoken in England, El-Kati explains how profoundly African languages and culture are black (both African and African-Americans) have made and continue to the effect that variance. It is, for example, is difficult to find a word of slang or colloquial expressions that do not originate in an African village, slaves on a plantation or in a ghetto. This anecdotally, is common knowledge. Traces Hiptionary anecdotal to the actual. "English spoken by all Americans," Mahmoud El-Kati says, "is also part of Africa in the vocabulary, tone, quality and form." It states, "[South Carolina] carried an apparent source Unlimited African rice cultivation from Angola to Sierra Leone and Liberia. African people in South Carolina and parts of other Atlantic coastal regions profoundly influenced in the way that all people of these regions speak. Therefore, white English speakers (I had a few French-speaking) in the rice producing regions, conscious or unconsciously adopted or adapted to African speech patterns. "He sums up: 'The" southern accent "of the targets of Charleston … sounds like no other southern accent. "demonstrating that it is a question of absorbing the oppressive culture that submits, El-Kati also recognizes that words such as Minnesota, Michigan, Chicago, snuff, potatoes and many more were co-opted by the natives of America. It connects today's Black America to some of the most fascinating roots. "The foundation of African-American culture by name, faceless people, a people defined as American slaves as a" species of property "and not simply created by the individual genius of Duke Ellington, one of Ray Charles, Charlie Parker, or the individual genius of Kurtis Blow, or the genius of the group Sugar Hill Gang, or Chuck D or Baambaata Afrika, nor Urch Cool, but rather are heirs and bearers of each [rich culture and heritage], so beautifully expressed by WEB DuBois. "Once it is El-Kati shed light on the linguistic history of the United States, offering a thesaurus or less than 50 pages of words and terms that will be useful for Whites trying to understand what black people mean when they used certain turns of phrase and, in fact, for black people who have an instinctive grip on, but can not fully explain the words they use themselves. It is also a useful guide for blacks who are alienated from certain aspects of culture and black therefore, as in the dark as whites. El-Kati closes with a handful of chapters on the sentence, and the historical appearance. "A teachable moment on Black / Nigga, Richard Pryor, Hip-Hop, Rap and "begins:" Of all the sordid legacy bequeathed to the black people by the "peculiar institution "Or" black on Slavery, "nothing is more annoying, painful, confusing, and pregnant women that the word Black / Nigga. The word is almost beyond more due to their development, adaptation and complex meaning. "He then goes on to consider several pages in, departures and long-range impact of a word. It's easy, without the slightest insult, dubbing, Mahmoud El-Kati a know-it-all, because, frankly, all the information your mind does not maintains more or less not worth having. Such is his devotion to the understanding and appreciation of society. That said, the Hiptionary is a splendid addition to your working body. The Hiptionary A Study of African American speech patterns with a compendium of key words and phrases is available at www.Amazon.com. About the Author