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.
To: Constitution Day
If I remember correctly, wasn't he the one that said that dialect would be dead in a few decades?
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