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Progressive white educators who support Afrocentrists insist that it is wrong to correct students' usage and grammar

Okay, fine, don't correct them then. But in 30 years, don't start complaining why grown men and women who talk like this aren't CEOs of major companies

22 posted on 06/04/2002 9:46:14 AM PDT by billbears
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To: billbears; Phantom Lord; wimpycat
Linguistics professors Walt Wolfram and Erik Thomas defend ebonics as the legitimate dialect of a dynamic minority in their new book, The Development of African-American English.

Sad to say, but both Wolfram and Thomas are professors at N.C. State.
I recognized the name because I read Wolfram's book on the Ocracoke Island "Hoi Toider" accent and where in England it originated.

45 posted on 06/04/2002 10:25:12 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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