Three Words

FFirst word:     

 “Ghetto”   is defined as a noun, according to the oxford dictionary, a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. As a verb, it is to put in or restricted to an isolated or segregated area or group.

The etymology of “ghetto” or “ghet” which means slag or waste in Venetian, and was used in this sense in a reference to a foundry where slag was stored located on the same island as the area of Jewish confinement (the Venetian Ghetto), and borghetto diminutive of borgo “borough”. Hebrew get, a divorce or separation document.

I started using this word four years ago when my sister first mentioned it. I think it all started because I was doing something that my sister thought was poorly done, and she called it “ghetto”. Now and days, I still use the word “ghetto” towards my roommates who then started using it to their friends and so on. One day we didn’t have any lighters in the house to burn candles for a birthday cake so we fold up a paper on top of a stove and waited for the paper to ignite with fire and then quickly transfer the fire onto a candle. Then we said, “That’s so ghetto”.

In Sean Kingston’s song “Take You There” he said, “I’m known in the ghetto, girl just stay by my side”, which interprets that the ghetto is not a redefined socially safe place for those who are unfamiliar. Akon also sang a song call “Ghetto”; “Gun shots every night in the (ghetto), every day is a fight in the (ghetto), selling coke and weed in the (ghetto).”

But my friends nor my sisters and I were not using this term in any way related to the actual ghetto. I think it was more about the thoughts of doing something poorly, but intelligently. 

Second word:

2.       “Whatever” is defined as a pronoun or use as a determiner. It is used to emphasize a lack of restriction in referring to anything or amount, no matter what. As a pronoun it is use for emphasis instead of “what” in question, typically expressing surprise or confusion.

The second word that I come by often is the word “Whatever”. This word is just unbelievable, but always carries throughout conversations as a way to say you could care less. My boyfriend always says this word even whenever we have arguments. He would say “whatever” and I was really irritated with the word. Actually in 2010, CBS reported that “whatever” was one of the top 5 most annoying words.

I dislike this word. Whenever I hear someone say that word, it gives me the impression that that person doesn’t care much about anything. There’s a saying that said, “one who doesn’t value oneself, doesn’t value anything else”. Is that true or not?

Third word:

3.       Fatty is deprived of the real word fatties and fattiness. It is an adjective defined as containing a large amount of fat, fatty tissue, and as a noun, a fat person (often as a nickname) according to the oxford dictionary. 

  I don’t remember how I come upon this word but it’s a nickname I give to my older sister. I have four older sisters, two who are very petite and two who are not. But I only call one of them fatty because I found her to be ultimately cute and filled with love and I idolize her to death. It’s a term I am familiar with because I found it to be common nicknames among family members. Maybe I caught this word by watching too much movies or seeing someone else do it first. But whatever it was, I got stuck on it.

I don’t think it’s a nickname meant to hurt ones feeling, instead I think of it as a bubbly cute nickname. It interests me that this word doesn’t offend people as often as I thought it would like back in high school. I hear my friends call their family members “fat” which is shorten from “fatty” all the time.