[coon2000]

Does anyone have an explanation as to why his wife wrote, "It’s yo birfday. . . . We gonna pawty like iz yo birfday!” ? It is the style that I find interesting. Is she an adult? Does she have any education? Is English her first or second language? At first I thought that this email from her was made up but it appears that she did in fact send this email. It is odd to me, maybe I am old fashioned but her style just makes me shake my head.

[Madame Dufarge]

Apparently this an excerpt from a song by rapper 50 Cent.

[magellan]

Does anyone have an explanation as to why his wife wrote, "It’s yo birfday. . . . We gonna pawty like iz yo birfday!"

It is hip-hop speak. I can only guess the two were fans of hip-hop music, especially 50-Cent (a.k.a., "Fiddy"), since the line is a quote from the lyrics of one of his "songs".

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