Posted on 08/29/2010 2:42:18 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Speak Ebonics? You may have a future at the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Yes, academics and culture warriors may argue endlessly over the merits of "black English" as a subject to be taught or whether it is a separate language. But the DEA has little doubt about its usefulness. The federal agency has put out a request for linguists who are fluent in "Ebonics."
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I’m fluent in redneck. Wonder if I can get a job?
I saw them on Airplane (the movie).
Guess that if Rednecks start offending in the same numbers as Ebonoids do, you may be in luck...
Whachawanna ax?
I have done watched Judge Mathis and Judge Joe Brown — I knows a Kanisha Laquanna when I sees one. She be ghetto-FABULOUS.
Hey why not, because all these educated lefties just know the core of the country’s conspiracy problems is with the rednecks! :-/
I bet they won’t ever ask most of these ghetto-talk experts to actually interpret Ebonics. This is just another way to accelerate the affirmative action past court sanction goals.
I may send in a resume. Of course, the fact that I know how to spell the word resume may disqualify me. I did spell that right didn’t I?
It doesn’t even make sense since Ebonics is not a language, but is just a collection of lingo. It changes rapidly, you would need teenagers to actually be able to translate, and they would have a short shelf life.
Who dat?
I like this Delta Airlines commercial spoken in Ebonics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RljdyXeft04
Ebonics lessons in 10 easy steps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5cN6neql8
Both have some bad language although most of it gets beeped out.
I be needs ta score one dem translata gig, knowhatImsayin?
Dem suckas ain’ down widdit, don’ know whass up inda street yo.
For real I be serious, dawg. Ain’t playin’. Where I needs to get them stamps yo?
Don’t be skeezin’ a playa, I shank yo craka ass, knowhatImsayin?
I be needs some dat green, I gots no ‘dro, skillet. For real.
“Mumbo-dogface to the banana patch”.
Police keeping up with street cant is nothing new. But I’m kind of surprised to see it made this high-profile. If they’re not careful, the Bummer crowd will end up making it look as though jive-speakers are actually a significant source of trouble, which will get them in all sorts of dutch with the Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson set.
How is ebonics different from pidgin? Other than an american flavoring....
This is code speak for we are giving away cushy gubmint jobs to brothas.
It is an excuse to increase the black workforce
I don’t know, that’s why I’m not applying for the job. I understood it briefly when I taught high school, but it’s likely changed completely by now.
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