Posted on 08/23/2010 6:03:29 AM PDT by massmike
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”
The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
In contract documents, which are excerpted here, Ebonics is listed among 114 languages for which prospective contractors must be able to provide linguists
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
Tis is a joke, right?
So who day gonna ax?
Fo’ shizzle mah nizzle!
Barbara: “Chump don’t want de help, chump don’t get de help.”
In 20 years, the DOJ will be hiring experts to figure out what Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce members are saying.
...Or Hillary!, she ain’t noways tired................
They’ll show up for the interview wearing a “Don’t Be Snitchin’” t-shirt.
The Department of JustUs probably needs these for their internal meetings.
Linguistic racial profiling?
I would think that every year they would have to go to a conference to receive the latest updates in jive translation. Would love to be in one of those conference classes. It would be a hoot!! Barbara Billingsley could be the conference teacher because as we all know from Airplane, she speaks jive!! And yes, she’s still alive..
HF
Do they have to be illiterate, as well?
You are correct of course, all languages evolve but usually it's a very slow process. Last years gangsters wouldn't know what the hell this years gangsters were talking about. Changing cities, they have to learn a new language.
They got it wrong. It’s ‘skreet’. ;-)
I call it a virtual tie. Well done both of you. And thanks for saving me from having to do it.
I wish they had a link to the actual DoJ mention of “black English.” I don’t know who this Smoking Gun is, or what their level of accuracy is.
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