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re: Urban English? Is the inability to speak correctly contributing to unemployment?
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:36 am to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:36 am to LSUTANGERINE
Urban English is becoming more and more common. And accepted. Correcting a black person from using broken English is considered racist. Correcting a white person from using broken english is considered mean.
This post was edited on 10/23/15 at 7:53 am
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Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:37 am to LSUTANGERINE
Stereotypes and all that
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:38 am to fr33manator
Video not available. I was looking forward to listening to some Merle. 
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:44 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Many people just don't want to hire people of color.
bullshite. employers want competent people. Names with too many apostrophes or nonsense spellings are forbears of a background which, from experience, does not foster competence often.
But don't make it a racial thing. There are hard workers of every stripe and creed. I work alongside these people every day and it is NOT a race thing. It's a culture thing.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:47 am to Tunasntigers92
Get ready to be labeled a racist.
The point of the thread isn't important only that it doesn't painting minorities in a positive light.
And that's very important to some here it appears.
The point of the thread isn't important only that it doesn't painting minorities in a positive light.
And that's very important to some here it appears.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:48 am to Tunasntigers92
What this be? Y U No get wat I be saying man.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:48 am to Napoleon
It's never prevent me from holding a decent job.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:49 am to Tunasntigers92
Yeah I would actually.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:49 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
I fixed it
Posted on 10/23/15 at 7:57 am to Palmetto08
quote:
Correcting a black person from using broken English is considered racist. Correcting a white person from using broken english is considered mean.
Tough.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:17 am to Tunasntigers92
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:18 am to Tunasntigers92
Racist
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:18 am to fr33manator
Agreed.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:23 am to Tunasntigers92
I know a lot of people that can turn it on and off but I know a lot that can't.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:31 am to Tunasntigers92
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would you expect the said applicant to be able to correctly piece together a sentence?
What you expect the applicant pool to be and what it actually is are often very different. For now there are enough "normal" people that you can weed that grammatically challenged out, but after another decade or 2 of 140 character messages and emojies, good luck.
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:34 am to Tunasntigers92
A lot of linguists consider it a different dialect. Remember the Ebonics movement in the 90's?
Geechee is the creole language of the Gullah people in South Carolina. While it does use a lot of African loan words, the language largely resembles many of the urban and jive speech patterns. LINK
Geechee is the creole language of the Gullah people in South Carolina. While it does use a lot of African loan words, the language largely resembles many of the urban and jive speech patterns. LINK
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:35 am to Tunasntigers92
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:37 am to Tunasntigers92
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f you were a manager at let's say, McDonald's would you expect the said applicant to be able to correctly piece together a sentence?
Is this McDonald's in rural Utah or Idaho?
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:38 am to LSUTANGERINE
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No. I am only saying what I posted. That when all is equal, including the experience and education, the majority of folks would rather hire a white person than a black person. The controlled studies support that.
So what you are saying : It's not racism,but an intuitive choice of best job candidates based on names,which might be a sign of their type of upbringing?
Posted on 10/23/15 at 8:49 am to UptownnMike
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I know a lot of people that can turn it on and off but I know a lot that can't.
The ones that know how to turn it on and off are perfect,as long as they understand the proper time to do that, People that communicate with everyone are perfect for a job like that,and a person like that would understand, that a job interview would be the time to use fairly correct English.
Now somebody can jump on me, for my run-on sentence and poor punctuation.
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