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To: rktman

The problem with this attitude is consistency. The English language and its grammar have developed over years, and rules establish consistency and clarity of communication.

Ebonics snips off and simplifies so much vocabulary and syntax that it is imprecise. Worse, it’s not codified. I doubt that today’s ebonics speaker could be understood by one 20 years from now.

Contracts in ebonics will be a real trip.


60 posted on 03/03/2015 9:25:44 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Most Americans would never understand the slang/accents found in many parts of the UK, blacks and whites speaking the same. Just because they understand each other doesn’t mean they’re marketable outside their immediate region.

It must be racism too right?


73 posted on 03/03/2015 10:47:49 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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