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Does Ebonics exemplify American laziness or efficiency? (pg. 5)
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by spanglo
Don't forget to hate on the Hawaiian Islanders that speak Pidgin. Stupid Samoans.
Anyone who talks funny is dumb. |
You go beach, ya? |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by flavdave
It's not "u" it's "you," you ing idiot. |
the letter "u" is acceptable for the word "you" on the internetz. It also sounds the exact same. U fail. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| YO THAT JACKET IS TIGHT, SON! YAW'MEEN? |
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| Vivid Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
- The copula "be" is often dropped. [examples: "You crazy! (You are crazy)",
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no no no it is not dropped just placed elsewhere in the sentence.
[examples: "YOU CRAZY BE!" (you are crazy) |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
no no no it is not dropped just placed elsewhere in the sentence.
[examples: "YOU CRAZY BE!" (you are crazy) |
LOL. Well done. :) |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
the letter "u" is acceptable for the word "you" on the internetz. It also sounds the exact same. U fail. |
It always bugs me when I see "u" because I tend to think of single letters and numbers in my native tongue, but I see "you" as an english word, so in my head they're pronounced very differently. :nervous: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
lol
I knew I was baiting you right in to this thread anyway when I posted it ;) |
Hehe :D
| quote: | Originally posted by chimera66
i do try...it's because i'm african-america (truly because my family is actually in kenya mostly). my parents speak three languages as do most people in kenya so why the hell can't some americans speak one...english? they should feel embarrased by the fact that they can't communicate in their own language. |
They can't? Wow, they must be really good at guessing :p |
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| Jake Benson |
| I don't mind the English language shifting or being influence by certain dialects. But I think ebonics is a crock of . It one of two only dialects that aren't regionally bound. In other words, people talk this way as a part of a mentality they adopt, as opposed to talking this way because everyone else in the region talks this way. Gaybonics is the other non-regionally bound dialect, and for that reason I hate gay people too. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Athough Ebonics is the "Creole" of US English... |
Incorrect. Ebonics is not a creole. A creole is a pidgin with native speakers. A pidgin is a language created from at least two existing languages (at least one substrate and a superstrate) in situations where there is no common language between speakers and one must be created out of necessity.
Ebonics is merely a dialect of one source language: American English. It is only less correct than "proper speaking" through largely arbitrary processes of standardisation. It's definitely arguable that teaching a dialect over standardised language is wrong as it limits the communication and options of the pupil, but there is nothing essentially different about Ebonics from the way any of you talk when you deviate from completely standardised American English, and as such there's nothing inherently wrong with it either.
Motherfucker. |
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| Fledz |
| As soon as I read "American English", any credibility went straight out the window. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
As soon as I read "American English", any credibility went straight out the window. |
Luckily, I don't give a about what you think is credible. American English is a recognised standardised form of English. It's taught in schools, written in dictionaries and spoken by the government. Go and read a beginner's guide to sociolinguistics and then I might, might start caring about what you deem credible. |
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