"Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?

[Grant Barrett]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 16:21, Alice Faber wrote:
> Wow...I *never* understood *any* implication of illegality in "ghetto"
> (as in "ghetto-blaster"), *never*.

The "stolen" implication is completely absent from my experience,
too. Wilson and Alice's glosses are similar to mine: jerry-rigged,
improvised, half-assed, knock-off, bootleg, cheap, tacky.


Grant Barrett
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