At 11:10 PM -0800 12/20/96, Mike Duvos wrote:
When I read Tim's original message on "Ebonics", I thought it was one of those witty parodies he occasionally comes up with.
Thanks for the compliment! The "Ebonics" notion is too strange for my imagination to have come up with, though.
Then I turned on the NBC Nightly News, and lo and behold, "Ebonics" was one of the featured stories, replete with commentary by former New York mayor Ed Koch.
Indeed, the Oakland, California school system is teaching children in a "bilingual" program of "standard English" and "Ebonics." At least Ebonics is simpler: I be, you be, he be, she be, we be, dey be, it be, etc. So, how long before a lawsuit is filed ("it be filed") demanding that election ballots be printed in Ebonics, along with those printed in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Serbo-Croation, Blatislavan, Talegu, and the other 43 officially recognized languages? How long before it becomes a crime to "discriminate" (or, in Ebonics, "discimnate") against a person ("a peeples") who speaks Ebonics as his primary language? Democracy has run amok in this country. There is no hope for reforming at the ballot box, as democracy only makes things worse. Only a crypto reign of terror can purge this land of the scum. --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."