Ebonics Slang No Substitute for Standard English

Project 21 ^ | 8.23.02 | Michael King

[BuddhaBoy]

Please add me to your ping list.

Thank you.

[farmall]

This could lead to chronic unemployment and, potentially, a life of crime."

"chronic" is'nt this an ebonic code word for a dope smoker?

[Myrddin]

Why does the Miss Ebonics contest have only 49 participants? We can't anyone to wear the sash labeled "I da ho".

[Myrddin]

We can't get anyone to wear the sash labeled "I da ho".

[Dakmar]

It's slang for really high quality marijuana.

[Destructor]

"Make that "Ebonica (i.e., lingua) nihil valet." AnatoliusFZ"

Sounds good! Forgive my use of "Latin Ebonics!"

[Destructor]

"Nunca not Nihil?"

Probably. Uh...I'll shut up now!

[Gumlegs]

As in "Nuncadunga, Nuncadunga, Nuncadunga, and McCormick"?

[Gumlegs]

Maybe they talk to her using Paisanics?

[bankwalker]

Ya'll are killin me over here....holmes.

No offense, unix, but the grammatically correct term is "home" (as in home boy (from the same town)), not "holmes". We'll let it slide this time, but don't let it happen again.

[Gumlegs]

Try reading it as Nigel Bruce.

[T. P. Pole]

Your services are needed here.

Le prêcher bruyant, bruddah! Le prêcher bruyant, bruddah!

[spoiler2]

Ebonics is to speaking Standard English, as

Illiteracy is to reading Standard English.

Cure either of these inital factors and the other magically disappears!

[eno_]

So Roscoe my man, duz I gits to talk like a homey now dat Ebonics is da offisha talk u' du Freepah? You knows dat badass Joel Chandler Harris was a honkey too, fo sure. An if you kin read dem Brer Rabbit stories like I dun been doan you sho nuf kin talk like unka Remus too.

[Roscoe]

So Roscoe my man, duz I gits to talk like a homey now dat Ebonics is da offisha talk u' du Freepah?

How's the David Duke fan club doing?

[mhking]

How's the David Duke fan club doing?

I find myself wondering about several folks' remarks. Sure, a little ribbing is comical, but after a point, it is akin to flogging an expired equine, lest it's a means to "legitimately" act a fool.

[AppyPappy]

I think some freepers imagine they are a modern day Mark Twain.

[eno_]

Sir, I live in horse country and flogging a dead equine is a very offensive idea to me at both a cultural and ethnic level. I take very deep umbrage at your remark and expect no further tendencies in that direction. I am clearly understood?

David Duke? The french horn player? He gets around as a backup musician, but I didn't know he had a fan club.

[mhking]

...flogging a dead equine is a very offensive idea to me at both a cultural and ethnic level.

It can get messy after a while, too...[g]

I am clearly understood?

Succinctly.

He gets around as a backup musician, but I didn't know he had a fan club.

He do any more soundtracks lately?

[Gumlegs]

I think some freepers imagine they are a modern day Mark Twain.

... and fail to grasp the distinction between imagination and hallucination.