Bad Jokes & Ebonics

[Gary Elshaw]

The recent discussion of Ebonics delivered this to my in-box today


 EBONICS                                 ENGLISH

 Big Daddy's Rap                         The Lord's Prayer
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Yo, Bid Daddy upstairs,                 Our Father, who art in  Heaven

 You be chillin'                         Hallowed be thy name

 So be yo hood                           Thy Kingdom come

 You be sayin' it, I be doin' it         Thy will be done

 In this here hood and yo's              On earth as it is in heaven

 Gimme some eats                         Give us this day our daily bread


 And cut me some slack, Blood            And forgive us our trespasses

 Sos I be doin' it to dem dat diss me    As we forgive those who trespass
                                             against us



 Don't be pushing me into no jive        And lead us not into temptation

 And keep dem Crips away                 But deliver us from evil

 'Cause you always be da Man             For thine is the Kingdom, the
 				power and the glory, forever.

 Aaa-men                                 Amen


Take care,
Gary

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"In any case, I wouldn't want to go visit a poststructuralist dentist, who
believes that cavities and novocaine are social constructs, nor to a
postmodern oncologist who believes that all cancer treatments are relatively
equal because they are ideologically based.  In one case I would no doubt be
hollering as my dentist dismissed my idea of pain as being a logocentric
attachment; in the other, I would perhaps die after being prayed over by,
oh, I don't know, snake-handlers or some such beautiful but nevertheless
ineffective medicine.  And I wonder what "narrative" a postcolonial
astrophysicist would want to tell me about the primitive life "discovered"
on Mars?"     -Rich Cummins

                                   Gary Elshaw
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