Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts

[^_^ 5,021]

Uhh.. thank you for sharing?

[Peikko 1,575]

The dialect is native to this continent as in it originated here. It's as American as jazz music.

Quit with your native talk, it's unamerican.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Ebonics is PC word for talkin ghetto.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Do you understand the point of linguistics?

Regardless a class of this nature is a waste of time IMO.

[^_^ 5,021]

MC, I suggest you not engage.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Actually, the class was offered by the Linguistics department and was more than just black english. The purpose was to show us how linguists derive rules for languages through observation.

More than just studying Ebonics, well thats a little better. Does this class address other bad English like spanglish?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The dialect is native to this continent as in it originated here. It's as American as jazz music.

Yes and should be offered in school. Public school. We should PAY for it. It is racist not to.

[^_^ 5,021]

More than just studying Ebonics, well thats a little better. Does this class address other bad English like spanglish?

It addressed another dialect of English common in Asia. I forget which one.

[_Simpson_ 250]

It addressed another dialect of English common in Asia. I forget which one.

I guess my issue is that I dont think Ebonics should be taken seriously. Considering all the bad English out there why are we taking this one seriously. Is it just a result of the white guilt nonsense.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

List of dialects of the English language

Great Britain (British English)

• Black British English
• England (English language in England)
  • Northern
    • Cheshire
    • Cumbrian (Cumbria including Barrow-in-Furness)
    • Geordie (Newcastle upon Tyne)
    • Lancastrian (Lancashire)
    • Scouse (Merseyside)
    • Mancunian-Salfordian (Manchester & Salford)
    • Mackem (Sunderland)
    • Northumbrian (rural Northumberland)
    • Pitmatic (Durham and Northumberland)
    • Yorkshire (also known as Broad Yorkshire or Tyke)
    • In the far north, local speech is noticeably Scots in nature.

    [*]East Midlands[*]West Midlands

    • Black Country English
    • Brummie (Birmingham)
    • Potteries (north Staffordshire)

    [*]Southern

    • Received Pronunciation (Also known as Queen's English or BBC English)
    • Cockney (East London)
    • East Anglian (Norfolk/Broad Norfolk, Suffolk and North Essex)
    • Estuary (Thames Estuary)
    • Kentish (Kent)
    • Multicultural London English (Inner London)
    • Sussex

    [*]West Country

  [*]Scotland

  • Scottish English

  [*]Wales

  • Welsh English
    • Cardiff

Ireland

• Mid Ulster English
• Hiberno-English
  • Dublin
  • Cork

Isle of Man

• Manx English

Channel Islands

• Guernsey English
• Jersey English

Malta

• Maltenglish

North America

• American English (AmE, AmEng, USEng)
  • Cultural
    • African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
    • Chicano English
    • General American
    • New York Latino English
    • Pennsylvania Dutchified English
    • Yeshivish
    • Yinglish

    [*]Regional

    • Northeastern dialects
      • Boston English
      • Hudson Valley English (Albany)
      • Maine-New Hampshire English
      • New York City Dialect, Northern New Jersey Dialect (New York metropolitan area)
      • Providence-area English
      • Vermont English
      • Philadelphia-area English
      • Buffalo English

      [*]Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)

      • Wawarsing English
      • Northeast Pennsylvania English (Scranton, Pennsylvania-area)

      [*]Mid-Atlantic dialects

      • Pittsburgh English
      • Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Accent (D.C. Slang)
      • Baltimorese
      • Tidewater accent
      • Virginia Piedmont
      • Virginia Tidewater [1]

      [*]Inland North American (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, the suburbs of Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)

      • The Chicago accent
      • Buffalo English

      [*]North Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)

      • • Yooper dialect (the variety of North Central American English spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in some neighboring areas)

      [*]Midland American English

      • North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)
      • St. Louis dialect
      • South Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)
      • Appalachian English

      [*]Southern English

      • Coastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)
      • Cajun English
      • Harkers Island English (North Carolina)
      • Ozark English
      • Piedmont Dialect
      • Southern Highland English
      • Florida Cracker Dialect
      • Gullah or Geechee
      • Tampanian English
      • Texan
      • Yat (New Orleans)

      [*]Western English

      • California English
      • Utah English
      • Wyoming English
      • Idaho English
      • Boontling
      • Hawaiian English
      • Pacific Northwest English

  [*]Canadian English (CanE, CanEng)

  • Newfoundland English
  • Maritimer English
    • Cape Breton accent
    • Lunenburg English

    [*]West/Central Canadian English

    • Northern Ontario English
    • Quebec English
    • Ottawa Valley Twang
    • Pacific Northwest English

  [*]Bermudian English[*]Native American Englishes (Amerindian Englishes)

  • Mojave English
  • Isletan English
  • Tsimshian English
  • Lumbee English
  • Tohono O'odham English
  • Inupiaq English

  Caribbean

  [*]Caribbean English

  • Anguillan English
  • Antiguan English
  • Bahamian English
  • Jamaican English
  • Trinidadian English

  Central and South America

  [*]Belizean English[*]Falkland Islands English[*]Guyanese English

Asia

• Burmese English
• Hong Kong English
• Pakistani English
• Tinglish
• Indian English
  • Hinglish
  • Punjabi/Delhi English
  • U.P/Bihari English
  • Bengali/Assamese English
  • Oriya English
  • Gujarati English
  • Maharashtrian English
  • Kannadiga English
  • Telugu English
  • Tamil English
  • Malayalee English

  [*]Malaysian English (MyE)

  • Manglish

  [*]Philippine English (PhE)[*]Singapore English[*]Sri Lankan English (SLE)

more....

..........

And anybody married to a Filipina should know that Philippine English is quite different from Midwestern English.

[^_^ 5,021]

I guess my issue is that I dont think Ebonics should be taken seriously. Considering all the bad English out there why are we taking this one seriously. Is it just a result of the white guilt nonsense.

Linguists study language in all its forms.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Gary and Simpson, nice Red Herrings and attempts to derail this thread. Get back on topic, or leave the thread.

Your crocodile tears notwithstanding, this story shouldn't generate the self-righteous indignation that you two have shown. Law enforcement are having trouble disciphering the language used in wire taps in preparation for either a trial, or an arrest, so they are asking for help from linguistics experts. It really is that simple, your attemtps to characterize and demonize ebonics shows your own enmity

[Amby 490]

simpson - I think they're taking it seriously because they need to know ####### they're saying (maybe they understand but they need someone credible to "translate" it for other people to understand) so it'll be usable in court or to obtain a warrant or something. if the judge doesn't understand it, or the people (jury?) who have to hear the wiretaps in court don't understand it, how the hell do you expect them to find someone guilty?

[Ban Hammer 13,681]

run for the hills, mc has caps lock and isn't afraid to use it!

[Peikko 1,575]

run for the hills, mc has caps lock and isn't afraid to use it!

Caps locs, italics AND coloured fonts! I am reacting to provocation.