Posted on 08/06/2013 12:04:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the best scenes in all of moviedom!
There is. In the home.
It worked for Benjamin Crump, Jesse Jackson,and Al Sharpton.
Is that different from Cockney?
So now I have to learn Ebonics? It strikes me as a degenerate dialect--less direct, fewer tenses, ambiguous or simplified vocabulary. Why should I have to do that?
When I read this I immediately though of several electronics owners' manuals, written in pretty bad Asian/English.
False equivalency rhetoric. Utter BS.
They tell us that he learned how to read.
It can be difficult for kids in a multilingual family.
My mother spoke excellent English, Russian, Yiddish. My father spoke correct English, Yiddish and Argentinian Spanish. None of my grandparents spoke English as a first language. My maternal grandparents spoke different dialects of Yiddish and we had to remember which one said which pronunciation or they would get huffy and refuse to respond. We responded by calling things by combined words that used both dialects. They lived a large part of their adult lives in immigrant and first generation communities where all the adults spoke several languages and shifted between them.
Everyone was merciless on the kids when it came to correct English because “You don’t want to sound like a greenhorn.” We learned that excellent English so well, I once had a teacher remark that that I spoke it too correctly, like someone who learned it well, but as a second language.
However, they would use the other languages among themselves, especially when they wanted to communicate privately in front of us. So, we picked up the important words: daughter, son, names of foods and anything that might mean we were in trouble. Every other communication in our lives took place in English, most of it colloquial.
Today I know a few words and phrases in Yiddish, know zero Spanish except for American Spanglish and I never acquired an ear for Russian. I think they had their own amalgam of all their common languages and have no idea of their dialects, except Bubbe and Zayde who bickered constantly over “braedt-brodt” and “Pittur-putter” (phonetic for their differences in saying “bread and butter”).
I still sort of mentally translate colloquial English into academically correct English, and try not to wince internally at poor grammar.
Your grandkids are Americans and that is what they will speak.
Liberals seek the destruction of Western (Christian) Culture as one of their highest priorities.
The “ghetto” culture is actually an anti-culture, one that is in rebellion to (”don’t act white”) the Western Culture,
so the left embraces it.
““My Chinese wife does complain that our grand kids don’t speak good Chinese”
That sentence is as grammatically incorrect as anything Jeantel has ever said.”
No, it isn’t. I would prefer “grandchildren”, but everything is correct.
Chinglish.
“Please slip and fall carefully”
‘don’t speak good Chinese’ is technically not ‘correct’ grammar.
That's an interesting observation. In Michael Crichton's excellent book "The Great Train Robbery" he explores at some length the London slang of the criminal class. They used this jargon, and it's quite elaborate, to determine bona fides. If one couldn't keep up w/ the dialog then they were clearly an impostor.
I suspect that ebonics works in a similar fashion being used to seperate genuine ghetto from wanna be ghetto.
There’s nothing ungrammatical about “They don’t speak good Chinese.”
“Good Chinese” refers to standard, grammatical Chinese, and is perfectly fine to use.
Perhaps you are confusing “I don’t speak good English” with I don’t speak English well,” two similar sentences that can have very different meanings.
So you are saying that they speak Chinese, but the equivalent of a ‘ghetto’ version of Chinese and speak that dialect well?
Why can't the blackish teach their children how to speak?
It’s not English. It will move her forward, and she knows she has to speak differently in other settings.
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