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Recently I found out ebonics as a form of language. As you can imagine I come from a Non-english speaking country so, finding out about ebonics has deep implications in me for I want to know more about it and if you do speak it I'd like to know how it is written.
Is it any different from regular english?
I checked the wikipedia but it doesn't give me a hint on what it is like to speak ebonics. All it says is that ebonics is "originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black north American and west African people"
Feel free to post as long as you're not submitting any racist comments. We don't want to be banned, do we?
I'm not sure if you've ever seen or heard a rap concert, but it's usually a language used by african-americans in rap or R&B music.
I'm sure that it's a part of their culture, so I can respect that by not insulting them for using it, or telling them that they shouldn't use it, since it's just the way they like to talk sometimes. I don't, however, intend to start speaking in what I have dubbed "Rap-panese" anytime in the near future. Words like "Yo" and "Foo" just sound improper to me. I am openly opposed to Rap music because half the time the artists who sing it don't seem to have nearly as much tone in their voices as artists in other music types. It sounds to me like they are just speaking words that rhyme very rapidly, and to me that doesn't equal quality music.
A comedian name George Carlin once gave an interesting view on Rap and Ebonics that gave me a chuckle.
He stated, in his act, that the letters in Rap are actually abbreviations for a longer meaning.
R= Retards
A= Attempting
P= Poetry
I thought it was kind of funny, because a lot of rap music sounds, to me, like garbled words that were just thrown in at random, so his description sort of matched my view of it.
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