re: Ebonics (serious question)

I guess all Brits, Aussies, and Kiwis sound the same to you.

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You will hear "I be axin a question" in any state in the country. Has nothing to do with regional dialect...

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I think Noam Chomsky (or one of his bubbas) would say language is culturally driven.

Your language is influenced by it too. You probably sound overall more "American" than your great-great grandfather did. Radio and television have homogenized your speech as well. You just picked it up from a different culture, your culture.

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be axin a question" in any state in the country. Has nothing to do with regional dialect...

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It's not question jackass. It's querstion, horspital

I axed that cracka arse bitch a querstion, way da horspital be? Cracka ack like I bees crazy! Like I be sayin a crazy larnguage. Den I told that cracka arse bitch he was stupid as frick.


That's a little more accurate. I have heard more consonants used improperly than I could have ever dreamed in my lifetime. Typically with deep southerners using the letters S and R in places where they have no buisness being in the first place. There fore I am not even sure that you can call them consonants. Maybe they are just misspelled ignorance passed down from previous illiterate and non articulative generations. This is not exclusive to poor blacks either. I have heard plenty of trash whites do this. As well. I truly wish we could get the school system fixed here in MS. The Democratic Party has controlled MS for the last 100 years so maybe this republican crew can get some things done and get some charter schools and other things going to give these citizens a choice and a better education. That is all.