Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts

thesmokinggun.com ^ | 08/23/2010 | n/a

[Le Chien Rouge]

Hire some wanna be rappers—white or black—.....seriously.

[Red Badger]

Just ask The Zero to translate. Harry Reid said he could.................

[Pietro]

Mrs. Cleaver speaks a mean m*therf***kin’ ebonics

[Celerity]

Call me when they need Klingon speakers.

[Abathar]

They would need several, a jive talker in Detroit is not using the same lingo as a rap star wannabe out in LA I bet.

[DainBramage]

You mean they say B!tch and Muhfugga in more than one dialect?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sounds racist to me (Sarc)...

[wideawake]

The idea is pretty silly - what they are looking for is not speakers of a dialect, but people who are familiar with the ever-changing and highly localized slang of the urban streets.

It is impossible to demonstrate proficiency in it the way one can demonstrate proficiency in Arabic or even Kreyol.

[Roccus]

[Ezekiel]

[cartan]

“I be uh professor o' da linguistics o' Ebonics. What do ya you wants me ta analyze? in the hood”

[Dr. Ursus]

I speak jive. Just don’t call me Shirley!

[elpadre]

check out some urban high school “English” teachers - a great source!

[dalebert]

be sure to include great benefit package and triple retirement.

[Mobties]

Here's a declension to get you started:

e coli
ebola
ebonics

[csmusaret]

I can translate redneck for them.

MR Boy Pigs
MR Not Boy Pigs
OSAR CMP?
LIB MR Boy Pigs

[MortMan]

You were betean by a measly 5 seconds!

[boomop1]

get algore he did pretty good the that black church.

[pabianice]

Just call it what it is. Spoken illiteracy.