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%)
To: dsrtsage
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...)
To: dsrtsage
16 posted on
09/04/2015 10:47:59 AM PDT by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: dsrtsage
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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