[HotHunt]

I have a white female friend in her mid-40s who is the general manager of several fast food operations here in Florida

Sometimes when I talk with her, she slips into a street slang, n***ga talk that I can hardly understand. She used the f-word a lot.

When I ask her why she's talking like that, she apologizes and reverts back to her normal, clear-spoken English.

She says almost all of her employees are young, mostly uneducated blacks who talk like that all of the time. She learned to talk like that herself in order to understand and keep up with what her employees were saying. It was the only way to communicate with them she told me.

She said that without learning the way they talk, it would like being in a foreign country and not knowing the language.

[Hot Tabasco]

I have a close friend who is black and has been a softball teammate of mine for a few years now. As much as I hate to say it, his use of correct grammar is really bad and what makes it worse is he mumbles a lot when he talks. Too often I have to ask him to repeat himself......

And I don't even want to mention his text messages....