During chattel slavery, anti-literacy laws prohibited enslaved Black people from reading and writing, which was a big factor in how the dialect was born. The researchers for this project also found this style of English allows Black people to communicate in coded ways that keep us safe from white violence. It requires Oxford University Press to acknowledge the role white institutions and academia have played in policing and erasing African American English and expression, while also acknowledging that AAVE is a legitimate language. While some of you may continue to pull up Urban Dictionary and Rap Genius for AAVE vocab (I feel the need to note that both were founded by white men), this dictionary will be a major anchor of accountability. The first volume will consist of 1,000 words and phrases that lay the foundation for an accessible resource that acknowledges the existence and impact of African American English. The team included Anansa Benbow, producer of The Black Language Podcast, and Bianca Jenkins, whose graduate research included using language to identify fake Black Twitter accounts they worked with linguists and lexicographers who have scoured hundreds of historical texts (and, of course, Black Twitter) to curate the dictionary, according to The New Yorker. In addition to pulling from historical sources, the team tapped into the best living sources it could find: Black women. The project involved extensive digging into music lyrics, letters, diary entries, magazines, and even slave narratives, according to The New York Times. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, set to be released in 2025, will define historically Black words and phrases and provide the more accurate origins of those words - reclaiming them, in a way. and a team of researchers from the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have teamed up with the Oxford University Press to give Black English its long-overdue props. List of common abbreviations and acronyms (NOAD, ESL, PIE.So it feels good to hear that Henry Louis Gates Jr.What's the relationship between various Oxford dictionaries? (OED vs ODO vs ODE vs NOAD). There are also a couple of questions about dictionaries, especially here on meta, that could use updating (even if the links aren't technically broken) such as: Therefore I would consider this another non-critical issue for most posts. This really isn't as much of a loss as it sounds, since both dictionaries were very close in content (see links above). With the new Lexico site, another thing I noticed is that there is now only one dictionary instead of two ( "Dictionary" and "Dictionary (US)", switched via the dropdown at the top of the page). I've been fixing these every now and then for a while. While I'm on the subject, I'll also note that there are old broken Google NGrams links/images in these posts. Plus, some URLs were also broken when another one of Oxford's dictionaries (the OALD) changed URLs a list of posts affected by this can be found here. Unfortunately saving any URLs that have not been backed up needs to be done as soon as possible, since Google caches don't last forever :/ (Yes, my method is complicated, but I do it this way for a reason.)Īnd then there are some links to the regular dictionary entries that were broken a while ago by a different URL change, which can be found here. Not all of these URLs were saved in either of the archiving services I know of, so I've been saving Google's cached version of the page into (the cached page is most easily found by searching Archive.is). I don't know if they're planning on reposting these articles on the new site, so I'm preparing for the worst. Right now, I see that the change has broken many (almost all?) of the blog links. Some links have been broken by this change, which is a more critical issue, so it might be a good idea to do some active editing, as long as we don't flood the home page. Most.įor non-critical issues like this, I fix them when I fix other issues on the same page, or if the question is already bumped and on the home page. There are many thousands of posts that link to (more specifically ~ 11k) and most of these links are still good and don't really need editing, since they just redirect to the current site. Nor is the change in URL, since you can click on most old URLs and be taken to the right page on the new site. Mehhhhhhh, the name change isn't worth doing mass edits over.
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