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Originally Posted by Geronimo '74
Morning Glen,
The only English speaker in the house was our television.
I do have an aptitude for anything that has to do with language.
Watching television made me fluent in English by the time I was 12 or so, before I had my first English course in school. I never had to learn the theory and grammatical rules and stuff.
English tachers loved me, I was not labor intensive for them...
Same with French, my German is not great, but good enough, as is my Spanish...
Ebonics, that's like English for crack hookers and pimps, no? In a rapsong, ok, otherwise it makes people sound like a retard. (with all due respect for retards, of course)....
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If there was a magic pill I could take to be milti-lingual I would love to take it. My brain is just not wired that way.
I was in line at a local business next to three guys that were speaking Ebonics amongst themselves. I could catch about one word in 10. I did not know if they were discussing quantum mechanics & string theory or bank robbery. It was just gibberish to me.