Posted on 12/15/2008 12:36:39 PM PST by chordmaster
Oh please! Not this “Ebonics” BS again!?
Diversity? Were I to hear that crap coming from the car or IPOD of a potential employee - they could forget about working here.
Of course, I don’t think that the type of scientific expertise that we require is normally mated with music that shows positive indication of negative evolution.
Second Language? Hell for most yutes today it’s their primary language!..........
You realize this a joke, don’t you?
RAP=CRAP
Who’s going to be teaching these classes I wonder? I wonder if they will be letting the students know what a 211 is and the meaning of a bird man, very important subjects that anyone in the hood should understand.
Fo Shizzle?
Although there was an attempt at the Latin version: Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" translated into Latin
E Pluribus UnDone...
There is nothing more funny that seeing a bunch of white upper-middle class suburban teens try to act all gangsta. I just want to take pictures and mail them back to them in 20 years.
please.......please tell me this is a joke.
Seems we sink lower every day....God help us.
Although this is a joke, there is a Linguistics Anthropology course at Rutgers where the term “Nappy Headed Ho” is part of the lexicon.
dumbing down America part 2.0
The ideal language for rap songs (or any songs, really) is one with natural rythmic patterns that make it easy to rhyme words of similar patterns and the same number of syllables.
One that fits this category is Arabic. It has 10 different verbal patterns and various other patterns for things like superlatives, ordinal numbers, etc. Sentences come off having an almost musical quality to them because they flow so easily. That’s why poetry has always been a pastime in the Middle East.
Take a simple phrase like “The bigger table and the smaller chair.” In English it has no apparent rhythm to it. In Arabic it reads “Al-tawila al-akbar wa al-kursi al-asghar.” Say it a few times. It has a rhyme to it.
Take the phrase “From two o’clock to four o’clock.” In Arabic, “Min al-sa’ah al-thaniyah ila al-sa’ah al-rab’iah.”
Take some verbs in English like “to go,” “to understand,” “to eat,” and “to study.” The singular 3rd person is “he goes,” “he understands,” he eats,” and “he studies.” They don’t rhyme at all. In Arabic they all fit a certain verb pattern, and are translated “thahaba,” “fahima,” “akala,” and “darasa” in the past, and “yathhabu,” “yafhamu,” “ya’akulu,” and “yadrusu” in the third person singular present. Same number of syllables, same sound.
So, as strange as it sounds, the ideal language for writing rap songs is indeed Arabic.
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