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Title: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: bijou on August 23, 2010, 07:34:09 AM

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The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”

The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29. ...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/justice-department-seeks-ebonics-experts

Title: Re: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: vesta111 on August 23, 2010, 07:57:14 AM

Quote from: bijou on August 23, 2010, 07:34:09 AM

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/justice-department-seeks-ebonics-experts

???????     Why not, if you have ever listened to a conversation between two Brothers or Sisters speaking in this form it comes across as Pig Latin  to a non speaker.

As a kid there were some of us kids that practiced speaking by putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable,  or the em-phasis on the wrong
syl-lable. 

What fun, it confused adults, other kids, parents and was our own secret code.

Title: Re: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: thundley4 on August 23, 2010, 09:10:09 AM

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EvR3_S23KM[/youtube]

Title: Re: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 23, 2010, 10:34:34 AM

I'm fluent in Ebonics....been speaking it all my life....it's english I had problems with.

Title: Re: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: true_blood on August 23, 2010, 12:03:40 PM

:racist:
HA HA!!! Hire ebonics "experts"?!?!? I love it. These people are absolutely clueless. Hey Eric Holder, you red diaper doper baby, get a clue you ****in' loser!! :bird: :censored:

Title: Re: Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Post by: Karin on August 24, 2010, 02:37:28 PM

What in the world do they need these experts for?  It's not like they're going to go after any of the traffickers.  Wrong color, you know.