To: hosepipe
Jamaican reggae dialect makes Eubonics seem almost intellectual..Minor quibble. "Ebonics" is slang term for a dialect most academics call "Black American English." Its root is the same as the word "ebony" (hence "black"). Eu- is the Greek root meaning "good" (i.e. Eugenics = "good genes"), so you basically called it "good language," which I would argue it certainly isn't...
To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
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Minor quibble. "Ebonics" is slang term for a dialect most academics call "Black American English." Its root is the same as the word "ebony" (hence "black"). Eu- is the Greek root meaning "good" (i.e. Eugenics = "good genes"), so you basically called it "good language," which I would argue it certainly isn't... ]
I call eubonics.... BUbonics.. "Black linguistic death"..
Or more accurately ... Pigeon English...
24 posted on
09/27/2009 7:58:18 AM PDT by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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