Posted on 08/23/2010 6:03:29 AM PDT by massmike
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a DEA Sensitive security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media
The DEAs need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agencys mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agencys various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
In contract documents, which are excerpted here, Ebonics is listed among 114 languages for which prospective contractors must be able to provide linguists
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
Neal Boortz and Royal Marshall are DESTINED for this public service position. Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SK6_Di_3O0 “Boo got shot!”
I suspect, actually, that this has deeper roots and that, more than anything, it is a push to legitimize something that most of academia and mainstream American culture have rejected.
LOL that will work she could moon light.
LOL - you go Pearl!
I think DOJ/WH needs to hire people who can read first so Holder and Napolitano won’t go spouting off about laws they haven’t even read. Is that part of the new “Hope & Change”, the ability to “think” or “guess” what a document says without reading it?..
Pelosi and her we have to pass it before we know what’s in it sounds like another hope’r or is that doper?
Dumbing down of America- and these people vote and supposedly lead the nation...
proof of the pudding is listening to their students, past and present.
in the 70’s and 80’s I did a lot of hiring, including for entry level jobs. Many HS grads could not fill out an application. They would either ask to bring it back later, or bring in a friend.
LOL!
Mr. ebonics translator, please define the word "hotel.
Ebonics translator: "When dat ho bendz over, you can seez her hotel!"
LOL!
Mr. ebonics translator, please define the word "omelette.
Ebonics translator: "I should be bustin' a cap in yo ass nigga, but omelette you go dis time!"
Be careful what you post, folks, or you might be called a RAAAAAAACIST the way I was when taking an on-line teaching course from (of all places, Regent Univ). The subject was discussing ebonics and I stated that we, as educators, had a responsibility to prepare our students to function at an optimum level so they can reach their potential - ebonics ain’t gunna cut it in the work place. Another student (Amish?) called me a racist, I went to the prof who was supposed to be monitoring the thread (instead she was at a wedding), sent the racist comment to Pat Robertson’s office then was taken to task by the dean for not following protocol for grievances. Because of “privacy rights”, I was never told what happened to this individual. This at REGENT UNIVERSITY!!!! Pat ole boy is just as PC as the rest of the libtard uni-s...damn shame...
LOL!
In all seriousness, “be” would not be needed in there. “I teaches English” is perfectly good Ebonics.
What’s so hard about it? Only one verb tense, no verb agreement regarding number. Lot’s of filler like “know what I’m saying?” and “shiiiiiii.....”
I don brought a case o beer and I drunk it obama self
whoaaaaa......look at all that open overhead-better not let that plane tip from side to side ‘cause somebody be cryin’ soon & cussin’ & slidin’ down the slide...... ( & yes i know it’s a movie set)
Like Bablefish? Try this!
LOL! Post of the day!
I don't do the hiring, but I do have to teach former HS inmates how to do their job. My personal favorite is teaching them how to determine parts per hour given total number of parts for this hour and last hour.
Magslinger: To determine parts per hour you subtract total number of parts for the last hour, you wrote that right here, from the total number of parts you wrote just now.
OK, write that last number on the scratch paper. Write the total number of parts for the last hour right under it. If you take seven from eight, that leaves you how many?
If you think that makes me an arithmetic teacher, you have grasped my point.
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