That link is not working for me, and anyway, as someone for whom ebonics was a first language, your ebonicizer does not impress. But then, as ebonics don't have to be realistic to be funny, yo I'll cut you some slack, muh-fuh-kuh.

-----Original Message----- From: Tim May [mailto:tcmay@got.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:13 PM To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM Subject: Re: The Cost of California Liberalism

At 11:58 AM +0000 12/19/00, Ken Brown wrote:

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But the Bush family is from Connecticut or somewhere. They *are* Yankees. Bush I never spoke with anything like a Texan voice & Bush II has to try. Bill's parody is a parody of a parody of a Texan accent, not a parody of a Texan accent.

When I worked in the Oil business some of my less sensitive English colleagues sometimes tried to parody Texan accents. They always got it very wrong - for example saying "Hooston" most Americans would instead of "Hyooston" as both we English and the Texans do (of course the name is originally Scottish (a place near Glasgow) and in it's homeland is "Hooston".)

We find it hard to tell Southern US accents apart from each other and (genuinely) hard to tell Southern white accents from the sort of black voices Tim rips off so charmingly.

Surely everyone knows that those voices are not my own handiwork?

I use the Ebonicizer.

Do ya th'o't I'm joking? Just enter yo' text into da bawx at da URL http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp an' it will magically be transformed into Ebonics. all ye damn hood ratz..

--Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns