re Re: SLSL language

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> The point, I think, that Charles is making is that,
> as
> a practical matter, teaching Ebonics, with all that
> entails--teachers, teacher training, texts,
> money--is
> greatly complicated by the fact that "Ebonics" is
> not
> the same thing from area to area, even from
> neighborhood to neighborhood.  (Of course one could
> standardize Ebonics and prescribe a grammar ...)

That does seem to be one of his points. He's wrong. 
Ebonics is the same language in Chicago and LA and
Oakland and NYC and from neighborhood to neighborhood
and everyplace it is spoken.  

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