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new photography, please be in shape. With that being said, we have a special guest.

It's going down in a major way.

We have the world-renowned linguist happening.

You guys might not know her prior to me introducing her,

but you definitely know her after the conversation that subsided.

The one, the only announces in the house. What's happening with you? I'm chilling. I'm telling you for having me. It's crazy. I feel like just following the show the past, like, you know, some change to finally being on it. It's pretty dope. So thank you for having you. You know, you're welcome. And and you know what you should be honored to be on my

show because my show is illustrious and anybody who's on this show should be privileged because

I'm going to be famous soon but before we even continue with the conversation I don't want to

butcher it I don't want to misspeak on anything tell everybody about your show that you got coming up yeah so um back

in july i officially launched the black language podcast um which is a podcast that i was inspired to

create just after years of studying linguistics um and years of like seeing my friends and family not

know what i do um but once i get to talk into them about it, they enjoy it.

They see like why it's useful.

And so the podcast is specifically dedicated to talking about black people and our languages,

mainly here throughout the United States,

and to talk about everything from like our favorite slang terms to things like grammar structures

and to like the linguistic discrimination and stuff that we face all right now before we continue a n a n essays how you spell your name right

what culture does your name derive from because I've never heard anyone with that name in my life. Yeah, yeah. So, my name comes from the adinker symbols of the Akhan people of Ghana. And so they have a set of adinker symbols. And I think, like, I've seen, like, people, like, allude to adinker symbols.

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