Jack be nimble. Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick.
Is that Ye olde white English or Ebonics ?
CB
>>> Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> 08/19/99 12:18PM >>>
At 04:08 AM 8/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>From: Peter Kosenko <kosenko at netwood.net>
>
>"Ebonics" is a difficult issue, so let me try it.
>
>Unfortunately, stereotypes are partially true. A
>language that develops in the absence of other
>resources becomes an impoverished language in
>certain ways. Ebonics has grown up primarily
>among uneducated blacks, hence the effort to treat
>it as a "full-blown" language is a little off the
>mark. This is not to say anything about its
>pronunciations or even about the value of people
>who grew up learning to speak it, just that a
>language that is basically confined to dealing
>with basic life issues will probably have full
>emotive complexity (nothing wrong with that) but
>not necessarily full conceptual complexity.
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