When I was still in nursing school, my teacher’s name was Mrs. Feury and she was an RN with a masters in nursing. She signed all her work as Mrs. Feury RN, MA. Well one day imagine our surprise when this extremely large black women showed up in the office screaming for Mrs. “Furryenema!”
true story!
In a certain, unnamed culture, the old say B & B Towing, becomes BNB, of course I must Ax my wife/mother/father/ etc for permission to do something, and one of the beauties is “I was verbally conversating with.....”
Judge Judy shakes her head at a lot of the ‘words’ thrown in her direction and she will caustically ask what a word or phrase might mean. Byrd just shakes his head but she admitted the other day that she doesn’t question much anymore as the ‘new dictionaries’ just add it rather than people ‘correcting’ it.
Of course Judge Joe Brown just smiles and joins the ‘verbal conversation’.........
That is why I got out of the Asphalt Paving game in the 90’s, I had pretty much ‘mastered’ Ebonics and figured I was getting too old to learn a new ‘language’ (Spanish) as the unskilled labor force was undergoing a massive change - which does happen every quarter century or so....