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From: Bob LeChevalier
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:30
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:30
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"Comm" <no@spam.com> wrote: >"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote in message >news:3iuae1tj8gh77bbibrh71f7nqkb7qf0pra@4ax.com... >>> >>>Nobody is currently teaching ebonics, nor was there ever a proposal that >>>it be taught as a separate course. The controversy has been that some >>>school districts have proposed teaching other courses IN ebonics. > >The problem with that is that by the time about a year goes by for anyone to >learn "first year ebonics" the language of ebonics will have significantly >CHANGED. As I said, nobody is learning "first year ebonics", since nobody is teaching it. >That is the nature of ebonics. By the way, I had no problem >understanding Tupac. However, the society at large did not understand him >and well - a bunch of people got branded criminals due to that >misunderstanding. But ebonics today is not the same as the ebonics of >Tupac. The language changes FAST. The words may change, especially the slang. The underlying grammatical structure does not change fast; the sorts of language differences that make learning standard English almost like learning a foreign language for someone whose home language is Black English Vernacular - those don't change. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org
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