Ebonics

[Kevin L Prigge]

drose at azstarnet.COM said:
> "Timothy C. May" <tcmay at got.net> wrote:
> 
> >In order to remain compliant with the new California law requiring
> >increased use of "Ebonics," the new academic name for "Black English" (and
> >known by honkey mofos as "ghetto jive"). Apparently the coloreds have had
> >enough of "standard English" and its repression of their culture. To meet
> >the requirements of this new law, 10% of my posts from now on will be
> >written as best I can manage in the Ebonic language.
> 
> ("Ebonics" elided)
> 
> There's got to be a better way than Ebonizing manually. First there was the
> Canadianizer, eh, hoser? Then there was Zippy
> (www.metahtml.com/demos/zippy/), which is terrific for Willy/Freeh/Reno
> speeches. We really need an Ebonizer (TM)!

Sounds like Jive. Probably need to update it for the latest hip-hop
lingo, but it's a nice filter.

> 
> BTW, Tim's not kidding about the Oakland, CA school system.  Check your
> regular news source.
> 
> 
> 


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