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iwanttobeasleep
2008-11-25 09:24 pm UTC (link)

I had a linguistics teacher who taught us about that, also. (And how racist/classist it is to call Ebonics/black English lazy, when it's just as complex as ours, if not moreso.) The whole thing made me feel guilty that my dialect wasn't as complex, but there's little to do to change that.

Luckily, I am learning to embrace the ridiculously roundabout language of English majors, which is just as awesome even if I can't use it in everyday speech.

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	napalmnacey 2008-11-25 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Man, Ebonics is amazing. It's the same words but I have no frickin' idea what they're saying. It's like the beginning of a new language or something, and I love it. (Different shit to what I'm used to excites me, I'm so weird). (Reply to this)(Parent)

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