At 09:32 AM 12/23/96 +0000, Omegaman wrote:

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from grammatically incorrect speech. I can speak with grammatic perfection and a drawl so heavy it'll make your eyeballs hurt. Yeah. I thought the issue was understanding in the workplace; no matter how gramatically correct your are, I can't understand you and so I won't hire you.

Re-read what I said carefully. I "*can* speak"... I can also speak more clearly. The same holds true, for speakers of "ebonics." and it is an insult to their intelligence to imply that they cannot or cannot easily learn to.

I am waiting for the "language police" to get ahold of Ebonics. I can just see inner city kids being told that they are not slurring their vowels properly or any other of a thousand obscure rules of language. Maybe the best way to kill a subculture's language is to codify it, regiment it, and then force it to be taught in the schools. What the hell this has to do with crypto, I have no idea... --- | "Spam is the Devil's toothpaste!" - stuart@teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|