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Originally Posted by Noah930
See the inadequacy of your own education? Don't you wish your grade school teachers way back when taught you this valuable language?
Where's that line from Airplane about speaking Jive?
A radio news spot on this yesterday mentioned that ebonics represented a unique combination of American english and African language roots. WTF? The average American-born inner city kid speaking ebonics has about as much appreciation for his/her African roots (linguisitically-speaking) as I do mine.
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I was a military brat. Every single year I was the new kid in school except as a senior in HS.
When you move from Hawaii to Alabama the dialect changes radically. My first day of third grade was in Alabama. I flat out could not understand the THICK southern accent of my white teacher. It was just a white version of ebonics. We had a pop spelling test and I made a ZERO. I did not understand what she was saying so I guessed the wrong words. It took me several months to learn the local accent.