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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
When I was in linguistics (many moons ago) , we studied "Black Standard English Variant". I remember when the hue and cry about "Ebonics" was in the news - am now curious as to who coined the phrase. I don't much like it - "ebony" + "phonics".
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soem idiots in Oakland....
BTW....maybe it's just me, but I don't buy into the whole "Black English BS...."
I do however believe in dialects and that depending on where you are you will be able to distinguish....for instance if you go to some parts of Bal'more, you can hear this....
I think either you speak 'proper' english or you don't.....