The word "Amen" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express agreement, affirmation or approval at the end of a prayer, statement, poem or song. For example; "We thank you for the blessing of this day, Amen."
The service does not seem a huge success, according to independent sources, such as AppData: it ranks the Amen app 154th in its chart of the most popular apps in Germany for the iPhone (the only platform for which Amen is available).Yet Amen can be very useful, for instance if one happens to look for a good bar somewhere in Berlin central district.
Many Americans first encountered Amen like this; it crops up, for example, in the theme of the popular cartoon series "Futurama .Before long the merest hint of Amen was enough to drive crowds into a frenzyBut Amen never went away.
And fellow users only have two options to comment: "Amen" or "Hell No .This may sound simplistic, but the thinking behind Amen is anything but.
Combined with the sampler, a new piece of digital hardware that recorded snippets of sound for deployment in other contexts, it allowed producers to create extended loops over which rappers could perform.The first hip-hop producers to use what became known as the "Amen break" did so with no great ambition.
For a time anyone trying to build a name in the scene had to turn their hand to Amen.
Read Isabel Wilkerson's account of the 20th-century exodus of millions of her fellow African-Americans from the states of the old Confederacy and the only possible response is "Amen!"A country that elected Barack Obama president two years ago once made people then called coloureds feel foreigners in their own land.
Note the displaced kick and snare in the third bar, and the subsequent syncopation of the fourth.NWA Straight Outta Compton (Island, 1988)(Warning: riddled with profanities, violent imagery and general unpleasantness).In 1986 "Amen, Brother" was selected for "Ultimate Breaks and Beats", a compilation of easy-to-sample tracks aimed at hip-hop DJs and producers.
A good example is this arresting track from one of the stars of contemporary British dance music, which makes extensive use of elements from Amen.
Even if they have an open mind about Bibles in hotel rooms, many people will say "Amen" to that.
The band's former front-man says that neither he nor Coleman, who he says died in poverty in 2006, received any royalties from the extensive reuse of Amen.
