ghetto talk is it a language?

Question

do you think in i dont know like 8 years from now ghetto talk will be considered a language like english and spanish and stuff i mean do you think this ghetto talk will last long or will it die down because it has already lasted a long time. will they teach it in schools hahaha seriously?

Answer 1

yadidimean
ghost ride the whip
thizz face
yea mayne

Answer 2

It's a language all right, the English language! It isn't a language if the sense you're describing, it's more of a patois.

What do you consider a long time? Eight years? Eight years is nothing in the span of a language. It may as well be eight seconds.

Keep in mind there was "ghetto talk" in black America as early as the turn of the last century. Words like "reefer" and "hot mama" hail from this era.

Will it last? Not likely. It will change to reflect the culture and environment of the ghetto. Who knows where the ghetto culture will be in a generation or two? Maybe ghettos in the sense we're referring to will cease to exist in a 100 years from now. Then what of the language?

I wouldn't invest too much in it, unless you intend to live in a ghetto all your life. You can't survive very well in the mainstream world using it, and because of the high slang content and vague words like "shazizzle," you can't communicate complicated information with it.

Answer 3

From the clip I saw on the link you provided, it seems that he's talking about ANY language other than English. He thinks kids will pick up English faster by "immersion", which forces them to learn it, than providing "bi-lingual" instruction. And he's probably right. How many immigrants, from wherever they came from, had kids who spoke English at school and another language at home? I'm not sure I can count that high, can you? Anyway, all he's saying is that we're all better off knowing the language of the dominant culture. And he's right about that. Where would I be if I only spoke Yiddish, like my grandparents did? My options would be extremely limited, wouldn't you say?

Answer 4

No.
Ghetto talk is a slang, which is hardly the same
thing as a language.
And, because it's used mainly by rappers--who
might like to call themselves musicians, but are
nothing more than self-denying morons who are
corrupting the youth of (not just this country, but
the world as a whole), then I can only hope that
no one President of the US--or any political
leader, for that matter--would be so idiotic as
to have it taught in the schools.
The mere thought is even more ridiculous than
the "art of rap" replacing classical music classes!

Answer 5

No, ghetto talk (or Ebonics) will never be considered a "language" because it's just a dialect of english (like New Yorker, Valley Girl or even Spanglish). However there's already been a study about teaching school in Ebonics http://ucl.broward.edu/pathfinders/Ebonics.htm . And if you want to learn the "language" you can cruise online for one of the many versions of the Ebonics Dictionary.
Ebonics will always be around (in one form or another) because like all dialects it's constantly evolving.

Answer 6

Not really....It's more of a "fad". People will stop talking like that, rap won't be nearly as popular, and anyway, skaters have lots of terms that they use, but SKATER isn't considered a language.

Answer 7

No,it's just slang.They have it in all languages.I use it all the time,you know? stuff like "what it is" "wack" "ghostride" "crunk" "yo broad/mayun" "bust a 9 in yo @$$"

Answer 8

No, it is a dialect.

Answer 9

haha doubt it. but that'd be tight i'd take that class.