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Originally posted by mgdzkm433:
What about writing in 'ebonics'? Is that common too? I have never come across this except here at greekchat and I find it very hard to follow what someone is trying to get across.
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Mgdzkm433,
People generally write the same way they speak. Especially in casual conversation. So if you are reading posts in BGLO forums, you are bound to see some "ebonics" in some of the posts.
Miss.Mocha,
I think what Mgdzkm433 means is this. Let me use Shelacious's examples of "sto", "fixina" and "finna". You and I automatically know that these words are really "store" and "fixing to", but Mgdzkm433 doesn't. Therefore, she would have a hard time understanding a post that used those terms, especially when they are spelled that way. I don't think she was referring to typos, since we all do those once in a while.
[This message has been edited by MIDWESTDIVA (edited November 30, 2000).]
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