The Cost of California Liberalism

[Carskadden, Rush]

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 at got.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:13 PM
> To: cypherpunks at Algebra.COM
> Subject: Re: The Cost of California Liberalism
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:58 AM +0000 12/19/00, Ken Brown wrote:
> >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 at got.net        Corralitos, California
> Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
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> Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
> 
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