open back, let's continue, so Rastafarians believe that the English language was an instrument of western oppression that robbed Africans of their native speech, which is true because once the Africans were enslaved by the Europeans they had to stop speaking their language and speak English instead, so instead of following basic language mechanics and dictation Rastafarians, um, have have drawn, excuse me, to the African tradition of viewing words and articulated the philosophy of word, sound, and power. Word, sound, and power is basically the belief that words should be closely aligned to their meanings. For example, let's look at this. The word oppression means restriction of freedom, right? Yet the first syllable is a positive sounding up. Do you get get it? So Rastas would change the word to don't person to accurately express the meaning of the word. Another example of this is understanding. Under has a negative connotation, it's something below. So why would you say understanding? They say instead overstanding to make it more positive, word, sound and power. That's it for Rastafarian language. I'm giving you the very basics. I hope it's making sense to you so far.