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To: snowman1

The new test is in ebonics....


5 posted on 05/31/2007 3:48:52 AM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: Quick Shot

Ebonics? Oh, they wish!

Funny personal story about language stereotypes. I was eating in a fast-food place when a middle-aged Latina woman came in and spoke to the cashier, a teenage Hispanic-looking boy, in Spanish. The boy replied, “I don’t speak Spanish.” The look on her face was priceless.


10 posted on 05/31/2007 4:26:40 AM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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