Ebonics
Paul Mackin
mackin at allware.com
Mon Dec 30 09:02:19 CST 1996
Maybe Ebonics should be adopted as the language of the Internet. Would be
easy to learn for nonnative English speakers. For one thing it tends to
ignore gramatical case, number and verb inflection. Could probably be further
simplified to drop gender as well. Feminists would like that.
The biggest advangtage would be brevity. It is widely believed impossible
to express ideas in it requiring more than a few lines.
Well think about it. :-)
P.
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