Black People : Who needs Ebonics?

[jamesfrmphilly]

white folk no can understand

OK...
I know this is going to sound like a dumb question...
But I thought ebonics was just a way of describing black slang...
Is it an actual language then? form Africa or something?

it's a slang or a dialect or somethin......

 

[Amnat77]

I don't criticize the use of Ebonics...I use it fairly regularly myself. But, purely and simply put---it's still English. If "THEY" can still understand you, then you are still speaking their language--- with a unique twist. This isn't really the focus of this thread, but if Black people want to take back our tongues, we need to learn African languages. Now, there are books on Ebonics, which I admittedly haven't studied but will at some point, but I can't fathom how if you are speaking to nonblacks in Ebonics, and they understand you how it could be certified as an official language. Maybe someone can offer a different perspective. I'm more fascinated by the unique tongue of the Gullah people, but I'm not sure that it would be classified as Ebonics.

They think they are slick and are speaking from both sides of their mouth. On one hand they claimed Ebonics is not a language, it is just slang regulated to the ghettos of black America.

Ok

Fast forward to 2010, I presume that most of the taped conversation and wire tapes of black prisoners and regular citizens that they've acquired is useless to them, as the article asserts :''This mandate basically states, “We need nine ni–ers who can understand this sh–. Because we can’t''.

Another example of the arrogance of Western culture, they set the precedence then change it whenever to suit their agenda.

i like how they are advertising this job vacancy during a recession.

Very slick indeed.

 

[chuck]

it's a slang or a dialect or somethin......

Is it just me or do you think folk are making it all up as they go along too?

 

[$$RICH$$]

Is it just me or do you think folk are making it all up as they go along too?

Yes a lot of it is made up as they go , one can speak a new term and it spread
with a means of a new street code , I learn a lot from being out there
as well some of that fizzo, izzo izik....... pig language

 

[bientempo]

I would class it as something like they have in England,

Rhyming Cockney.
Cockney rhyming slang is not a language but a collection of phrases used by Cockneys and other Londoners

Rhyming Slang phrases are derived from taking an expression which rhymes with a word and then using that expression instead of the word. For example the word "look" rhymes with "butcher's hook". In many cases the rhyming word is omitted - so you won't find too many Londoners having a "bucher's hook", but you might find a few having a "butcher's".

if you don't understand it you won't know what they are talking about