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To: Glad2bnuts

Well to be fair Black Ebonics has different dialects. Now for North East Coast pronouns and articles take on and dialects and different pronunciations.

Such as “ He be. She be’’. Dey (they) be’’

Lower form Ebonics would be “M’fer( sorry. Very,Very bad wrd but educational purposes; “m’fer come down hea’ and he be talkin’ s**t and he be like,
Man No body got no time fo da s**t!’’.

As you can see there is High Ebonics, Middle Range as in “Yeah girl! Damn you be lookin’ dope!’’ translated. “Y girl friend you look great in that dress!’’.

And Low Ebonics is the vernacular.


51 posted on 04/14/2024 8:17:07 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa
I happened on an interview of a female rapper, she’s from Memphis . When I heard he speak, I thought, “She sounds familiar” ,yet I knew I had never heard her before. After a bit , I realized she sounded like Peaches , from the classic, Boo Got Shot .

Boo Got Shot

52 posted on 04/14/2024 8:24:31 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: jmacusa

I can best translate lower form ebonics. The higher form sounds like a scene out of the original Shaft movie.


60 posted on 04/14/2024 10:34:30 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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