Ebonics

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     Anybody want to invest in my latest scam, uh, I mean business 
     opportunity?  
     
     "Hooked on Ebonics"
     
     To be relentlessly advertised on news radio to parents concerned about 
     how well their kids do in school.  Now, instead of helping children 
     overcome reading deficiencies, this program is guaranteed to make sure 
     that all kids reach the lowest common denominator.
     
     What next?  Amos 'n' Andyonics?
     
     Holy Mackerel Sapphire!
     
     


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Subject: Re: Ebonics 
Author:  " Paul Mackin" <mackin at allware.com> at Internet
Date:    12/30/96 10:02 AM


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.