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To: ROCKLOBSTER
"the british version of ebonics."

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.

96 posted on 08/06/2013 7:09:58 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Pietro
I suspect that ebonics works in a similar fashion being used to seperate genuine ghetto from wanna be ghetto.

Why can't the blackish teach their children how to speak?

99 posted on 08/06/2013 7:22:06 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Pietro

I believe Cockney is also known as the “rhyming slang”.


101 posted on 08/06/2013 7:24:23 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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