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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 31, 2010, 05:19:06 PM
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Ebonics Expert: Speech Played Important Rule Among America's Slaves
But while African-American English may seem like a uneducated form of traditional English to some, Baugh said it has roots in the slave trade, when Africans with no access to educaton were forced to find a shared language.
Slave-traders, he explained, would often separate groups of slaves who spoke the same dialect, leaving the men and women with no way to verbally communicate. So they learned a rough version of standard English together, without the help of formal education or literacy skills.
"To say that it's a bastardization is cruel," he said. "The reality is that the linguistic consequences of slavery are greatly misunderstood."
DEA spokesman Mike Sanders said the request for the translators was made by the Atlanta field office.
"It has nothing to do with racial issues," Sanders said. "It is a type of language recognized by different linguist services as a type of language."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wanted-ebonics-translator-federal-dea-job/story?id=11462206&page=2
If ebonics is a consequence of slavery, then why didn't it appear before the 70's or so?
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Good question!!! Growing up, it was just called "slang" and every culture (white, black, asian, etc...) had it.
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In Ebonics, "We be ****ed!" :lmao:
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In Ebonics, "We be ****ed!" :lmao:
Only because they'll be hiring a rabbit for the job, so they can pay 'em at a considerably lower rate.
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Only because they'll be hiring a rabbit for the job, so they can pay 'em at a considerably lower rate.
Damn it! They are hiring a filthy rabbit. God must kill all bunnies.
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Here be ebonics fo' whitey!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5cN6neql8
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive...
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive...
I think that's why Barbara was called up to heaven this year. St. Peter needed a translator. :-) O-)
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I've been thinking about this. I've come to the conclusion that we're being played. I don't know of a single black person that doesn't speak English. They may not speak it properly, but they speak it. Kind of like the Hispanics saying, "No habla Englis". They do, they just don't want to admit it or be questioned by whitey.
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I've been thinking about this. I've come to the conclusion that we're being played. I don't know of a single black person that doesn't speak English. They may not speak it properly, but they speak it. Kind of like the Hispanics saying, "No habla Englis". They do, they just don't want to admit it or be questioned by whitey.
What happend to the folks that speak Esperanto.???
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What a joke. Ebonics?! Seriously?
Epic failure.
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What happend to the folks that speak Esperanto.???
Ask William Shatner.
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Ask William Shatner.
Only question I would ask him is why he told police he could not get his wife out of the deep end of the pool-----He was in one movie where he, not a double, could swim like a fish.
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Only question I would ask him is why he told police he could not get his wife out of the deep end of the pool-----He was in one movie where he, not a double, could swim like a fish.
So you are implying that Captain Kirk is a cold-blooded murderer? That would be worse than the Captain of the USS Enterprise being disgraced for a sex tape.
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So you are implying that Captain Kirk is a cold-blooded murderer? That would be worse than the Captain of the USS Enterprise being disgraced for a sex tape.
But if it was with Yeoman Rand.......... :naughty: