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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...

23 posted on 09/27/2009 7:34:40 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
[ 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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