Today's Ebonic word

[Racerbvd]

Today's Ebonic word from the
Newark NJ Public School System:
OMELETTE
Let's use it in a sentence:

"I should pop yo ass fo what you jus did, but omelette dis one slide."

[speeder]

You must have had 'em rolling on the floor at the last klan rally w/ that one.

There are a lot of dumb white MFers here who can't even spell the difference between there/their or to/too after using the English language for 30 or 40 years, got any jokes for them?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Racerbvd]

Originally posted by speeder
You must have had 'em rolling on the floor at the last klan rally w/ that one.

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A doctor friend, who happens be black sent it to me and I don't think he picked it up at a klan ralley.

There are a lot of dumb white MFers here who can't even spell the difference between there/their or to/too after using the English language for 30 or 40 years, got any jokes for them?

Why yes I do, and have posted them. There is a big difference between ignorant red neck speak and ebonics, they don't have redneck course in school, you have to learn how to limit your employability at home, while schools teach ebonics to limit someones employability.

[speeder]

Originally posted by Racerbvd
]\ friend, who happens be black

Well, he sounds like a good boy. I'm-a gonna have to move down there to Jacksonville some day.

[bryanthompson]

mmmm.... omlette...

[island911]

Originally posted by speeder
You must have had 'em rolling on the floor at the last klan rally w/ that one. .. .

Well that's so mighty white of ya speeder.

I get seriously tired of the whole "let me show you how NOT prejudice I am" defense.

Speeder, you are right, about whites sounding stupid . .but WTH makes you think slang like dat be jus fo da col'd bro's?

I know LA-LA is the center of the universe of all things cultural and all, but consider that maybe, just maybe, places exist where Byrons wurd of the day . .. and sentence, could easily be uttered by a WHITE GUY, as a part of his normal vernacular. (gasp, i know )

[island911]

I'll just add, to be clear; that slang is not owned by any skin color. It is an American thang.

The fact that there are racists who want to make "ebonics' a language of American dark-skinned people is quite disturbing.

[RickM]

....and for heaven's sake keep the Spanish omelette out of this........

[island911]

LOL !

[tabs]

Ole Speeder sounds like a Prissy ole school marm..with a stick up her a$$....

Just mo White Liberal Trash talkin thats all.....dey is so self rightous in dey sensativity....dey tink dey is the only arbitors of what is right and wrong.....and dey wil not hesitate one minute to crucify you if U don't see it their way...

[djmcmath]

Originally posted by island911
It is an American thang.

I hardly think slang is a purely American invention, Island. I'd go so far as to say that slang is distinctly limited to human speech, and is a recent innovation, inasmuch as humans have only been speaking for a few thousand years.

[speeder]

OK, I apologize. It's just when I see Northern Florida+18 hooptie ass rides in the yard+a previously posted confederate flag+a (really stupid) joke about colored folks, I think racist cracker. My bad.

[island911]

Originally posted by island911
I'll just add, to be clear; that slang . ..

"That" . . as in, the slang of topic. . . .dont' make me splian what "is" be.

edit: I should have wrote "that particular slang is . ..." to avoid it being read, w/o the inflection which I meant (you didn't hear it?)

[island911]

Originally posted by speeder
.. . Northern Florida+18 hooptie ass rides in the yard+a previously posted confederate flag+a (really stupid) joke about colored folks, I think racist cracker. My bad.

LMAO

you always post best under pressure.

[speeder]

Originally posted by tabs
Ole Speeder sounds like a Prissy ole school marm..with a stick up her a$$....

Just mo White Liberal Trash talkin thats all.....dey is so self rightous in dey sensativity....dey tink dey is the only arbitors of what is right and wrong.....and dey wil not hesitate one minute to crucify you if U don't see it their way...

Oh please, Ted. If you said that to me in person you would wake up in a crowd. But of course you know that. Have a drinky-winky on me.

[AFJuvat]

Originally posted by Racerbvd
]A doctor friend, who happens be black sent it to me and I don't think he picked it up at a klan ralley.

I never understood that whole "happens to be XXXXX" line.

He happens to be black.... like it was a surprise or something..

He had two parents, and they were both black, and they had sex,

so where does the surprise come in..

I would be more surprised if he happened to be scandinavian...

If you've ever watched blue collar comedy, they do a similar skit using redneck terms.

It was a joke folks, can we put our politically correct thinking away and lighten up a bit.

AFJuvat

[scottmandue]

Hey Island, you speak pidgin bra?

Oops sorry, wrong island... Hawaian=pidgin=slang

[on-ramp]

isn't ebonics spelled "EUBONICS"?

[ronin]

no, bubonics

[island911]

Originally posted by AFJuvat
I never understood that whole "happens to be XXXXX" line. .. .

You mean like:

My friend, who happens to be a Veternarian, told me my dog likely has fleas.

or

My neighbor, who happens to be a Architect, told me my foundation could likely support a second story.

or

my sister, who happens to be Jewish , told me a joke;

"How many Jewish wommen does it take to screw in a light bulb?


"Oh, nevermind . .. I'll just sit here in the dark."



Ah, yes; that last example surely started making some people nervous. . . some laugh.