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24-01-2006, 20:54 | #23 |
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24-01-2006, 21:00 | #24 |
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why is you usin normal english? dat's like SO borin. i ain't gonna use nuthin else in dis thred xept dis phat ass shit. straight on. no pun intended.
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24-01-2006, 23:06 | #26 |
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oh my, you guys! KQ, you aren't really doing ebonics thouogh not that i know ebonics that well, but for one thing i wouldnt think it's "nuthin" but something like 'nuttin' ... either way, it looks BAD ....
every language has dialecs, i am sorry, but not all brits speak 'proper' English - the dialect people speak in Yorkshire is just |
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ebonics.....oh boy
people tried to push ebonics into schools here in the South, and teach it as some kind of second language, but that idea failed thankfully. It's more than just slang, or maybe it's really intricate slang, i don't know, but I hear it everyday around here and it's acceptable speech. Plus it's so popular in hip hop music and culture. But again, you wouldn't bust out in Ebonics in a college essay or speaking with the president or something As for the African roots....learning a real African language or culture is better than just street slang, right? I think the African connection is just reaching for straws to make it sound more intellectual. People can speak and butcher a language however they want, I don't see the problem with Ebonics as long as people know how to speak better English too. |
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25-01-2006, 00:37 | #30 |
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25-01-2006, 02:24 | #31 |
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LOL ^^^ I think that sums it up for most people.
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The first purpose of a language is to allow communication between people, when that language has split into so many variants that communication is no longer possible, there is a problem. So yes, at some point, French kings decided that it was no longer practical to continue to use classical Latin to communicate within the elite while the people spoke various French dialects and did not understand a word of Latin. It was decided that the French dialect spoken by the aristocracy in Paris would become the official French and be taught to the entire population so communication on a national level would become easy and efficient. But again, i don't think that anything was lost because all French dialects were variations of the same theme. Things would have been different if Norman had come from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. From the 10th century, Vikings were the new rulers of Normandy (hence the name of the region) and thousands of Vikings settled in Normandy, but for some reason, instead of keeping Old Norse and imposing it on the local Gaulish populations, they did the opposite, Vikings abandoned Old Norse and learned the local French dialect. If Norman had derived from Old Norse, it would have survived, just like Breton survived in Brittany, or Alsatian in Alsace, because they were non-Latin dialects and therefore significantly different and worth keeping. But actually, the Norman dialect has not completely disappeared yet, it's still spoken by a few thousand people in Normandy and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey (the Channel Islands used to be part of the Duchy of Normandy, they were forgotten in the cession act between England and France), but just like Norman was replaced by French in Normandy, it's being replaced by English in the Channel Islands, it will probably disappear with the death of the people who currently speak it. You can see an example of Norman on this sign at Jersey airport. |
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if language and culture go hand in hand, as ebonics does with african american culture, then these comments are racist. you are degrading how a certain group communicates. that is pathetic. and also, who is african american here? no one. so yeah, laugh all you want.
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It is quite possible to have a serious discussion about a culture with degrading it, I know it is hard for some of you guys but the least you could do is try. Ebonics a dialect, just the same as Cockney. I can't understand Cockney for the life of me but I'm not going to say that the people who speak it are lazy, Jesus Christ! You cannot possibly ask for people to speak proper English because that differs from country to country. AND it difffers from time to time. What the hell is "proper English," anyhow! No country can claim they speak it properly. There's no such thing as "proper English." English is butchered one way or another. |
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Wishing that a specific group of underprivileged children would be taught the correct way to speak a language is not racism, that's called "education". For any other children, teaching them correct English, proper grammar and spelling is considered normal education, of course you teach kids how to speak correctly, nobody questions that, but if it's black kids… Ooh no, normal for everyone but not black kids, black kids can't learn correct English, they can only speak slang and nothing else can be taught to them. To me, this is where racism is, not the other way around. Quote:
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