[robertpaulsen]

"Experts" tell us that ebonics is three things: 1) an African language that is genetically passed on among blacks;...

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

[CatoRenasci]

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

Jus' ovah yonder by th' riddum jeans an' da wata'mel'n jeans.

[100%FEDUP]

"And where on the chromosome bees that gene?"

Oh, lieve me it bees dere and it bees dere since yo birfday!

[End Times Sentinel]

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

Also correct would be “What chromosome dat gene be on?” depending if you’re using the “House” dialect or the “Field” dialect.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[mhking]

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

A running joke I have with my mother (an English and Social Studies teacher at a high school in Gary, IN) is how to conjugate the verb, "to be," in "ghetto-speak":

I be,
You be,
He be,
She be,
It be,
All o' y'all be...

What's sad about that, is that there are some that believe that sort of conjugation to be true...

[Calvin Locke]

"Experts" tell us that ebonics is three things: 1) an African language that is genetically passed on among blacks;

And where on the chromosome bees that gene?

Vague recollections of Psych 1. But, to the best of my memory:

Frederick the Great wanted to find out what the "natural" language of humans was - French or German,
or heaven forbid, English. Had a couple of babies isolated from all language, going so far as to remove
the tongues from the nannies. Years pass...

Naturally, ole' Fred got what he didn't expect: Ebonics, I mean gibberish.

More nuture than nature, I surmise.