Grace Lee Whitney â better known as Captain Kirkâs sometime love interest, Yeoman Janice Rand â died of natural causes at her home in California, her son Jonathan Dweck told the Associated Press.
verb (used with object), codified, codifying. 1. to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code. 2. to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. Origin of codify. 1795-1805.
Signifyin' , or signifyin(g) (vernacular), is a form of wordplay.It is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words. A simple example would be insulting someone to show affection.hile Signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying--the association between words and the ideas they indicate..