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 [[1]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:
   > >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
   > [2]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
   >

References

   1. mailto:tcmay@got.net
   2. http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp