![]() ![]() These niggas wanna smoke right before they go strike back I got to the crib and I got me a ice pack Homies pulled up and told me get my ass in They drove off, tires screechin', lights flashin' So they had to let me go 'cause a priority was hired When I said I didn't know they was callin' me a liar I woke up, slightly concussed in handcuffsīleedin' from my head, I could barely even stand up Knocked out cold in the middle of CrenshawĪ nigga named Grit got credit for the pinfall Now I'm goin' down, down, down, like a submarine That's when two of 'em tried to hop on DemonĪnd I seen a fist comin' out of my peripheryĪnd all of the sudden the asphalt got slippery Sparks flyin' everywhere, people is screamin' So Colossus threw a barbecue grill in his face I seen one of 'em try to reach in his waist Too many people in the street to bear witnessĪnd they all hopped down from the roof with a quickness It didn't work, they seen them dudes at the chicken spotĪll them blood niggas standin' up on the rooftopĪnd any other day they would've been done shotted us So I tried to distract 'em and I offered 'em some weed I told them fools they're trippin', then they came up there mad deep I just had them tools at my school last week (Guess you only kick it with us when you got a problem) (Nothin' cuz, heard some enemies was up here) Gettin' caught up with these niggas wasn't part of the planĪnd in the back of my mind I know they about to act up I try to dip out that's when I hear the homie Demon he like Saw my homies from my neighborhood comin' up the streetĭressed in all blue from the head to they feet Just got his deal on some Crip wannabe shit Walkin' in his tank top like he on some G-Shit Seen this rap nigga I used to have beef with Walkin' past people sellin' jewelry on they front lawn Gettin' chased by the blue bird, just like cody In the middle of the street this is how we do itīack when niggas banged heavy metal like anvilĭroppin' off the cliff on the head of that coyote Still see the families barbecuein', drill teams 'Bout to hit up that parade for the Martin Luther King Sippin' on some liquor that I copped from the Pakistan In front of Dorsey High with a marijuana cigarette Maybe in a few hundred more years the spelling will change, but until then, it's just one of those damn things that happens in a living language.My gorillas throw gang signs, y'all niggas can't handle it Yes, by rule it should be pronounced "dam-ned," and back in Shakespeare's day, it was, but it's not any more. Then, of course, you get to damned and you have to throw up your hands. ( Condemn also used to be a longer word.) However, if you add the letters back to the end of damn, the n comes into play again. When the two-syllable damnum became the one-syllable damn, the letter n stayed behind but was no longer pronounced. Our modern damn started out as the Latin damnum, which means "injure" or "harm." You can see that damage comes from that same family tree. (All words are sounds first.) If you see the six-letter damnit on the page, you instinctively want to divide it into syllables, and the natural place for that division is right in the middle-"dam-nit," and the letter n gets pronounced, which is not what you want. Remember that a written word is basically a picture of a sound. When two words become one, ending letters become middle letters and their "jobs" during pronunciation can change. The simple answer to your damnit issue is that simply removing the space between two words does not always give you the legible compound word you want. There are rules, and they always seem to get bent or broken-which is one of the hallmarks of a living language. The English language is a strange and wonderful thing, and one of my favorite things to study. ![]()
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