Ebonics

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Steelhead wrote:
> > 
> > That's why I *be* all for Ebonics.
> 
> Was this last sentence written seriously or facetiously?
> 
> Admittedly, the only thing I know about this "Ebonics" thing is what I've
> heard on the various news shows on the TV and radio, but it sounds
> completely idiotic to me.
> 
> Steely: do you see "Ebonics" as a way "you can wage your war with
> WC...through absurdity"?  That is what "Ebonics" strikes me as, i.e.
> absurdity.  What else could it be?
> 
> On the other hand, could not "Ebonics" be an attempt to institutionalize
> or legitimize the slang of the streets and thereby strip it of its
> subversiveness?  In which case, you ought to be against "Ebonics".

On a third hand (dealer pass left), I see it as a scheme to keep the
$$ from the originator of The Lexicon of Jive, Dr Hepcat (Lavada Durst)
who passed away in Taylor, Texas in 1996. If his estate saw fit, they  
could milk this puppy until Dr Ishmael Reed says "copacetic".

"jamf'ing at the bit....

> 
> [A brief aside re: WC -- a bit of scatological imagery contained within
> this...WC/Western Civilization...WC/Water Closet...there's a
> toilet/shit/piss contained within Western Civilization.]

So you've never encountered an Asian "honey bucket"?

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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