Blog Assignment!

The famous linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf stated that "language is not simply a reporting device for experience, but a framework for it."

Our America begins with a “Ghetto Glossary” or a list of esoteric terms, terms that someone from within the community in the book would likely use and understand that someone from outside the community might not understand.

If you were to write a book chronicling the life of people from your own community, what terms and words would you include in a glossary at the beginning of your book? That is, what terms and words do people in your own community frequently use that people from outside of your community might not be familiar with or understand?