Op/Ed
 
“Ghetto” is Not an Adjective
   I've had enough.  I thought perhaps it were a fad, but it has lasted for years now, too many years.  As the publisher of the first American dictionary that mattered, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, I am an authority on words.  So pay attention: 
ghet·to (gét) n. (pl. -tos1 part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. 2 hist. Jewish quarter in a city.  3 segregated group or area.
   Notice anything?  Anything...oh I don't know...definitive?  Here's a start: that crazy little italicized “n.”  That means the word is a noun.  That means “ghetto” is not an adjective.  I call for an end to this haphazard use of the word.  Do not describe your cars as “ghetto,” do not describe your clothes as “ghetto,” and for the love of God, don't describe your shoes as “ghetto fabulous.”  That's ridiculous.
   Please, humans, for the sake of your greatest wordsmith, me, who worked so long and hard, learning 26 languages prior to publishing the great An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828, do not use “ghetto” as if it were an adjective.  I don't care what that Samuel Johnson loser says about usage.  No matter how popular the mis-usage of “ghetto” becomes, it will always be a noun in my book.  If you feel differently, bypass my masterpiece and pick up that punk's 1755 masterpiece-of-shit, A Dictionary of the English Language.
 
 

 
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