[BenLurkin]

“But a minute, if you’re in the black community, could be an hour.”

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav

[Agatsu77]

Words have meaning. Learn them!

[House Atreides]

“Racial and linguistic bias are also hard to tease apart because language is part of how we construct race as social concept,” Jones said.
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Gee, not this “race is a social construct” crap again.

[BenLurkin]

Among attendees, Scott said, some judges considered the dialect to be more like slang or lingo. That conclusion contradicts linguistic research, which maintains that it’s a variety of English with its own grammatical system.

So these judges aren't familiar with depositions, interviews, and trial testimony? That legal professionals, in a profession which exists almost entirely in the medium of language, somehow are not familiar with language and its usage?

That the ivory tower "linguists" with their publish or perish motivations, and agenda laden biases are more qualified to render opinions on what is or isn't slang, and ignore that communicative sloppiness is most often attributable to borderline illiteracy?

Or is it that the Judges are simply in need of re-education?

[Rebelbase]

And in certain circles No means maybe...

[DUMBGRUNT]

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

[JBW1949]

“...African American English...”

*facepalm*

[JBW1949]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7125107/Shocking-moment-granny-rolls-mobility-scooter-break-brawl-three-women.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed

I wonder if these ?people? were speaking “African American English”????

[HiTech RedNeck]

Conservatives shouldn’t be caviling at this. Millions of people comprise dozens of groups that speak different languages today, all of which use English. It isn’t even a black-specific issue. There are, so to speak, Redneck, and Tough Guy, and other kinds of dialects in the “white community.” Courts which don’t recognize this will devolve into confusion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The biggest take-away I get here is an observation of how the curse of Babel is threatening our country of English speakers. Courts can either recognize that, or pretend it isn’t there and plunge the country into worse injustice.

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[MrBambaLaMamba]

When someone says “innocent” I hear “guilty”, but when someone says “guilty” I hear “guilty”

[Labyrinthos]

“A person who’s hearing it could think that person meant an actual minute,” Scott said. “But a minute, if you’re in the black community, could be an hour. It could be six hours. A minute is a long time.”

Might explain the slow walk of some people when crossing the street.

[bgill]

IOW, they’re saying blacks are so stupid they can’t tell time.

Today, on FOX Sports, there was an interview with a black teen who’s team won a TX UIL High School soccer game. She was happy they won but had to ask what that thing was they’d won. It’s a trophy! How embarrassing. Hope they don’t engrave it in cursive.

[keving]

Splaying 2 Yawl:

“I’m coming back at 9:00, and I mean 9:00 WPT.” He leaves and Maude asks Florida, what’s “WPT”? Florida responds “White People Time. If he didn’t mean 9:00 sharp he would have said CPT. That’s Colored People Time. Which means ‘shuffle on in when you feel like it’”.