Ebonics: Black English (Part 2)
“You ain’t got to finish readin’ nuthin’ if you don’t want to, not even this damn sentence! Your teacher ain’t your Mama!”
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Author: Roger
Ebonics: Black English (Part 3)
The phrase “you know”[1] could well become the Black person’s Ebonics word for God. That way, other non-Ebonic speaking peoples will become accustomed to perceiving Black people as religious. Every time they hear another “you know” from an Ebonic speaker, they would know the speaker was praying.
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Ebonics: Black English (Part 4)
OTHER QUESTIONS COME TO MIND So now I hear you asking: does this mean that not only this phrase...
Read MoreEbonics: Black English (Part 5)
People who highly value the proper use of “good English” might not be pleased with the presence of Ebonic jive words, street phrases, or style of speech (including vocal inflections and intonations) but some of us–laymen and scholars alike–recognize it as a necessary by-product of a healthy and creative language like English.
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Ebonics: Black English (Part 6)
One can argue that since “ain’t” is used in common speech it should be allowed to pass, yet how wise is it to take every incorrect grammatical error and simply say “let it pass” as acceptable? Is there not a danger of destroying the aesthetic beauty of the language we speak?
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