[Robert A Cook PE]

Ebonics is a slurred inner-city (often black-dominated culture) spoken (miss-spoken) form of English used by illiterate Americans who refuse to discipline themselves.

It does not follow grammatical rules nor spelling rules(often deliberately breaking them!) and (when spoken quickly) cannot be easily understood outside that culture. It is entirely verbal, and cannot be used in writing. More correctly, people who CAN read and write English do NOT use ebonics.

Combined with bad schools and lazy parents, that sense of "oneness" and opposition to real culture seems to be the underlaying reason for using it.

[Mrs Ivan]

Thank you. I wasn't aware that being too lazy to speak properly now had an official name.