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To: VA_Gentleman

If something like that happens, it will be a mark of a lower class person, much like “Ebonics” today. I don’t see any movement toward “Spanglish” in the SW. Those who speak it are recent immigrants.


26 posted on 10/09/2010 8:33:58 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000

But think of all the translator’s jobs that would be lost!
Ebonics translators or, something this classic “accent” translator from “Bananas”

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF-AcR14Km8

The problem in all “proper” English definitions is the “useage” in dictionaries. It’s like people using the word
“floundering” when they mean “foundering” Because it’s used it’s there- due to social purists in the dictionary world. Doesn’t mean it’s very intelligent per se, just commonly used. Ebonics unfortunately could become “useage”
and trash talk accepted. I regard all of this like entering a foreign country.


84 posted on 10/09/2010 9:56:57 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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