re Re: re Re: re Re: re Re: re Re: SLSL language

[pynchonoid]

Keith:
>MalignD's position about the teaching of the
>fundamentals 
>of
>grammar doesn't have squat to do with imperialism and
>oppression. 

I disagree.  Whose fundamentals? Whose grammar?
When dominant culture uses the teaching of grammar to
suppress another culture and demean its members (as
reflected in Malign's charaterization of Black English
-- whose grammar has in fact informed some very
beautiful literature, as "mangled" and "aberrant", for
example) it's fair to talk about "oppression", and
when an empire does it, it's part of imperialism. 


Keith:
>It 
>has to
>do with eloquence and clarity of communication. 

Black English serves eloquence and clarity of
communication as well as any other kind of English, if
you know the lingo. 

-Doug 

"By the time he left, they had learned each other's
names and a few words in the respective
languages--afraid, happy, sleep, love . . . the
beginnings of a new tongue, a pidgin which they were
perhaps the only two speakers of in the world."
(GR, 351)






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