How does Ebonics aid a person in getting a good education, job or communicating effectively with others? It's slang, no more and no less. Absolute rubbish.
2007-02-27 19:06:53 · 11 answers · asked by Pontius 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Agreed, 100%. Anyone who proposes to teach it in any school should lose his credentials.
2007-02-27 19:10:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Should it be taught in school? No, I don't think so - but I think you might be going a little too far by calling it a travesty. It's the way some people speak. Certainly, it won't do in a formal setting; but then, the way I speak with my friends wouldn't do in a formal setting either. We all change our language somewhat to suit different situations - I say things around my friends that I would never dream of uttering around my mother. That doesn't make it inherently bad - simply bad for a certain situation and proper in another.
2007-02-28 03:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by ithyphallos 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. I think that your opinion is self-centered and short-sighted. Standard American English is the best choice, when speaking among the general public, for getting a good job and communicating effectively with the general public. So what? Do you consider southern English, New Yorkian English, etc. to be absolute rubbish? I think that it would behoove speakers of Ebonics to speak standard American English as well, but I do not particularly care whether or not they make that dialect their primary dialect. The fact that you do seems to me to make you look very selfish. Why do you care so much and feel so superior?
2007-02-28 09:33:44 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Let us refer to ebonics as "ERBONICS " from now on ,since through my own study I have done on this gross incorrect use of the english language was most common among people who smoked
alot of marijuana or had some other highly addictive drug habit.
2007-03-02 09:03:13 · answer #4 · answered by dave0037 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ebonics is a dialect as recognized by linguists. So we can disagree all we want with the experts, but that will not change the fact. I'm sure we can disagree with the Earth being round all we want... that will not make it flat even if we want it to.
2007-02-28 03:27:21 · answer #5 · answered by zeus 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. It's not slang, it's a dialect of English, which means it has its own grammatical and syntactical rules.
I try to avoid posting Wikipedia links in general, but the article covers the points pretty nicely.
2007-02-28 03:44:29 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
go to south central and see how good your uppity and exclusive view of language and its reality allow you to communicate...language is a tool...allow it to fit the people, not vice versa...and no, ebonics is not a language, but it is a phenomenon of language...society, economic realities, demographics, etc all shape how people speak...and there are a lot of people that think as much of american english as you do of ebonics when compared to the queen's english...
understand why ebonics exists...its complicated and, in some ways, wonderful...
2007-02-28 03:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by rufus 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Slang is part of our language's rich heritage. The more important something is, the more people will copy it, rip it off, and create new variation on it. Languages with no slang are not global in nature.
2007-02-28 03:11:11 · answer #8 · answered by St. Toad 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Its just a gimmick. An attention getter. Look at me. I can speak gibberish and my one note friend can speak gibberish too. We are special aren't we? Sad people trying to be important the only way they can... and it really doesn't matter because the world will swish past them and they will be forgotten.
2007-02-28 03:15:13 · answer #9 · answered by ricketyoldbat 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Disagree
Languages evolve. You can either sit there and cry about it or just accept change and live peacefully with it.
Even american english is an abomination of british english.
2007-02-28 03:22:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋