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To: SkyPilot

Butchered, 10 syllable, apostrophe filled names are common with African Americans now, especially females. The more ludricous sounding, the more difficult it is to pronounce, the better they like it. Its a cultural thing, like formalizing ebonics in a name.


13 posted on 10/19/2007 5:45:07 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Bulldawg Fan

I used to have a job that involved processing tax forms from low income households (mostly from inner city Atlanta). I noticed a fairly common trend of mothers giving all their kids first names that start with the same two letters (along with the usual odd spelling of common names), such as: DeWayne, Dejuan, DeShonda, Demetrius... The kids rarely had the same last name.


16 posted on 10/19/2007 6:03:51 AM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Bulldawg Fan

“like formalizing ebonics in a name.

Sounds that way.


17 posted on 10/19/2007 6:07:12 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Bulldawg Fan

Google Nicholas Stix and “None of That Sheniqua Sh*t” for a different, as in refreshing, take on the whole made up names thing.


21 posted on 10/19/2007 6:11:34 AM PDT by skepsel
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To: SkyPilot

Butchered, 10 syllable, apostrophe filled names are common with African Americans now, especially females. The more ludricous sounding, the more difficult it is to pronounce, the better they like it. Its a cultural thing, like formalizing ebonics in a name.

This is what Cosby was talking about... with 70-75% out of wedlock birth rates in the black community we are sliding into oblivion. BTW Ebonix is more political correctness for liberal racism

ie blacks are too stupid to speak proper English

39 posted on 10/19/2007 8:19:35 AM PDT by Nat Turner (Proud two term solider in the 2nd Infantry Div 84-85; 91-92)
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