whats the point of ebonic(black talk,aka ghetto,slang) its so useless,and makes the english languge all messed

Answer 1

Very good answers by Kacy and big Stan. People usually speak the way their parents speak. "Ebonics" is rooted in the history of this country. Slang is different, sorta from ebonics. African people who were forcefully brough here and enslaved were not allowed to learn the "proper" English so they spoke and wrote words the way they sounded. And many groups of people who come her do the same. I am assuming you are American. If so then you know you do not speak "English" either right? Ask any British person. You speak American and I bet some Brits think YOUR talk messes up the English language.. So there! LoL

Answer 2

You know, we spoke about this in my child development class.

The discussion was on whether Ebonics should be used in schools, added to dictionaries, and generally accepted as proper English. One side of the issue is that to do so would be 'fair' and improve overall grades and IQ scores of black students.

Personally, I think that we should speak proper English in schools, and be taught to speak it- even if ebonics was suddenly accepted in schools, do you think that acceptance would be instant in career settings, job interviews, and such? No- therefore at least a generation of students would be given a disadvantage in job seeking.

In your own peer group, speak any way you like. After all, it is just a dialect- like Cajun, or using slang that is common in other countries. Twins often develop their own languages. People from the North and South have hard times understanding each other. Eliminating ONE dialect that you find inappropriate will not make English snap back into a straight line.

One more fact. My Child Development course (book and all) refer to this as 'Black English' and therefore regardless what some say, I don't think that you are wrong for associating it thusly.

Answer 3

at the same time as it relies upon on the close by language of the audio equipment, i imagine it would want to have a tendency to have loads of "bur" and "mur". IIRC that's from an East Asian attitude. edit: perchance it changed into from German attitude. or perchance that changed into the Greeks describing the barbarians, who went round saying, "bar bar bar bar bar". those youtube hyperlinks are tremendous. supply her ideal answer. English has an amazingly exciting and fluid grammar, both formal English and vernacular grammars (vernacular being the most fluid). And it has between the most important vocabularies contained in the international, regularly with the aid of the indisputable fact that's so eclectic (we must have 23 words for each little thing). A phonetic language is way less stressful to entice close pronunciations, yet there's a lot historic past in a note in English. there's a distinct poetry in words in English, compared to Italian or Arabic. better like a teetering amalgam, a Rube-Goldbergness to it. Arabic does have maximum asthetic script, although. Hand down truthfully. Devanagari is high-quality too, yet Arabic takes the cake. edit: and how I talk after a drink or 2, each and each and every of the words in English bypass mutually. ;)

Answer 4

the same argument could be presented for all slang. if you're not speaking the Kings English( the true form of English) then you're part of your self proclaimed problem. IE use of common terms like cool when your not referring to temperature or, the term this or that rocks if you're not referring to geology. all races use slang it is how people of the same group relate to one another. In certain situation it is inappropriate, but in an informal setting it's a acceptable form of communication. If you don't like it or don't understand it don't try too just move on, obviously the conversation was not designed to include you. Also Black and Ghetto are not synonymous with each other that is offensive.

Answer 5

Languages change over time. For example, we don't use Thee and Thou except for in certain bizarre circumstances. I mean, read some Shakespear to see how our language has changed.

I remember reading a story about the fall of civilization. A group of scientists captured a tribeswoman and tried to teach her proper English as opposed to the broken language she was speaking. At the end of the story, though, you found she was trying to teach the scientists that t was a new world and their English was (to the tribespeople) as stilted as the Thee's and such are to us.

Mind you, I don't think we (as a society) will speak Ebonics...

Answer 6

What's the point of: slang, IM speak, "redneck talk", etc. ? It's just how people talk to sound a bit different than everyone else. It does make the English language much harder to learn.

After re-reading your question, I have to add: You really should learn how to punctuate and structure a sentence before trashing ANYONE else!

Answer 7

It all has to do with bad attitude. They don't want to assimilate into society, they want to change society to suit their agenda. They don't like our music, our food, our language. Because of an inferiority complex, they have to express themselves by acting superior. The few that have broken away from the ghetto attitude, have done so through inner strength and knowing they can do better. I salute them. Ghetto blacks don't like these achievers as it makes themselves look bad by comparison. Ebonics was started in the schools in an attempt to get the ghetto black into the mainstream, but at the expense of learning the proper English language. It is sad because white kids learn this and start talking like them. Education overall suffers as standards are compromised to accommodate everyone in the system.

Answer 8

"and makes the english languge all messed" As soon as you learn to speak proper English, I will deem you smart enough to be worthy of a proper answer.

Answer 9

Languages are always changing and evolving. New words are being added to the dictionary all the time. The english language itself was born from other dialects (Anglo Frisian,West Saxon etc) and is constantly "borrowing" words from other languages.

Answer 10

Its how people talk in their individual peer group. I mean every group has their own form of slang. Rednecks, blacks, hispanics, and so on all have their own words that they use when hangin out.