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Ebonics Slang No Substitute for Standard English
Project 21 ^ | 8.23.02 | Michael King

Posted on 08/23/2002 9:22:20 AM PDT by mhking

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To: Clemenza
If our team don't win, we'll sit and grin
WASAMATA U
We bet on the out-of-towners, and broke our QB's shins
WASAMATA U!
81 posted on 08/23/2002 9:16:32 PM PDT by Dakmar
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To: eno_
Actually, no.

Actually, yes.

82 posted on 08/24/2002 12:41:52 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: unix
Ya'll are killin me over here....holmes.

it is homes, as in homeboy.... sheesh, white guys... who watch too much classic porn

83 posted on 08/24/2002 8:40:27 PM PDT by teeman8r
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To: mhking
The first contact I had with Southern Blacks was in the military when I was in basic training in what is now Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. I never heard anything like Ebonics down there, either from fellow recruits, townspeople, or in the Black church we visited.
84 posted on 08/24/2002 10:05:55 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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