The World Wide Spray Can

RantWoman is cataloguing lexicography:

Crip: gang-banging thug, member or wannabe member of gang-banging formation by this name. Known for secret handshakes (see gang signs and refrain from lexicographical digressions about other uses of "sign"), coded clothing, vicious induction rituals and other disagreeable behaviors, some directed at members of the public, and periodic bouts of witless gunplay mainly directed between themselves and rival formations

Crip: historically derogatory term for some categories of people and now appropriated by some denizens of the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing for, well, obvious reasons unrelated to geography or turf wars or mindless gunplay.

Tagging: graffitti. Application of graffitti to buildings, signs, public and private property to demarcate territory or occasionally out of allegedly artistic motivations

Tagging: assignment of labels to visual or structural elements of webpages or documents to make descriptions available to visually impaired users or other computing processes.


Interpretation test: now interpret the following sentence into the target language of your choice. (If the interpretee actually says it, the interpreter is of course exempt from all contaminations of political incorrectness.)

A bunch of crips on the way to a workshop about tagging ran into a bunch of Crips tagging the bus stop.


For the culinary-minded:
Orzo: small rice-shaped pasta

Ouzo: anise-flavored liqueur
Which do you suppose is more likely to be on the lunch menu at RantMom's weekly volunteer gig?