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Southern and ebonics sound pretty much the same to me


7 posted on 09/04/2015 10:37:20 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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I had that happen in southern Va. decades ago. Some rebels in the restaurant sounded ‘xactly like northern ghetto speech inn their use of phonemes.


13 posted on 09/04/2015 10:45:48 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3333086/posts?page=14#14


16 posted on 09/04/2015 10:47:59 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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They are the same.
When I was a kid there were still poor southern whites that spoke that way.


21 posted on 09/04/2015 10:52:47 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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