NP Ebonics (was It ain't only Rock & Roll, it's Jazz too)

[David Morris]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> David, do you know this Abdiel to be Terrance?

I think it's pretty obvious he is Terrance.  And he responded w/o saying he's
not.
>
> If so, how disappointing; and how like him to crap out with this sort of
insipid mewling.
> 

It's saddening, but not shocking...

> Still, I'm curious:  what, exactly, is my strawman?  I think (1) there is
purpose and merit in prescribing a standard grammar; and (2) I find the
arguments for Black grammar weak, its implementation and practice destructive. 
Pretty much everything I've written in this thread reflects those points.
>
> And it was Abdiel or whomever who infused this argument with racial
name-calling.
> 
> If Abdiel is Terrance (whoever "Terrance" is--I had believed him a rather
neurotic gay man, living in New York), it's all a pretty shameful ruse.

I don't think Terrance has been trying to hide behind this name.  He's changed
names many times over the years, but his personality always shows through
sooner or later.  I don't know why you think he's gay (and I won't touch your
associating gay and nuerotic with a ten-foot pole).  He's mentioned a wife,
too, many times.  In this thread he said she taught grammer.  I have no reason
to disbelieve that she exists.

David Morris


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