Ebonics, and how I hate them

[Aquarian81]

Okay, arent teachers supposed to be grammatically correct and Politically correct? Well my Professor isnt either. She speaks in the most wrong grammer ever! ex:



"Who dat girl be"?

"She be comin in late all da time"

"who she think she be"?

"They was like, what da test be on"?

"The test be real hard"



So on and so forth. Its so annoying to hear her talk the street talk for 4 hours straight, and its especially not good for me because I am an Education/Journalism major. I HAVE to have proper grammer.

[Alexis]

What you be talkin' 'bout, girl. Aint no one got a speech & grammar problem. You be talkin' crazy!!!

[Aquarian81]

Seriously, she a teacher for heaven's sake! An EDUCATOR.

[SimarikSmokin]

Is she a black? then of course she will talk like that

[JOhnny]

Is she black? She must be def.. I had done a course on language and the mind in my last semester. The blacks have a definite pattern of speaking, which i can explain but i dont think many wud understand.. so to be simple..

Doing -- > doin'

Nothing --> nuttin'

etc...

there is a pattern for this pronounciation.

and



Two negatives go together, eg. I aint know nothing man.

[Alexis]

Thats right, shes the teacher and youre the student.



I really have nothing else to add. Im just bored.

[SimarikSmokin]

and to picture they say pitcher!

[CtrlAltDel]

however they mite talk...they do great Rap, Hiphop n R&B...!

[Johnny]

however they mite talk...they do great Rap, Hiphop n R&B...!

Exactly.. they make good rap and RnB..

And pretty good actors too..

Shud see Will smith with his accent.. awesome.

[Aquarian81]

Gotta agree with that, I love me my hip hop:



Shawty crunk on the floor wide open

Speak so much they call her Billy ocean

Row like eighteen wheeler

That hoe find but this hoe killer

She leakin, she's soak and wet

She leakin, soak and wet

Shake it like a salt shaker (shake it like a salt shaker)

Shake it like a salt shaker (shake it like a salt shaker)



[Verse One: Kaine]

P poppin, till you percolate

First booty on duty no time to wait

Make it work, with your wet t-shirt

bi*** you gotta shake it till your camel starts to hurt

Say the heals on your feet or the strap around your ankle

Call that big bow jangle

Juicy like fruit or dosh like coup Deville

Used to get loose on the goose for real

[CtrlAltDel]

I love me my hip hop:

WOW! u love 'black' music too??? i LOVE rap/hiphop/RnB.....and i am a rare species in this DB...

[Aquarian81]

Yup, my favorite is Lil'Jon, Yin Yang twins, Tupac (classic), Snoop Dogg (love him to pieces), Nas and a few others.

[Alexis]

Im not much into black music at all. Im not racist, but Im more into the white bands. Then theres New Age, which I love....and Trance.......and Metallica---I LOVE!!!



I love Snoop tho, his old gansta stuff. And the Ying Yang twins. Thats it.

[SimarikSmokin]

I love ying yang twins, j-kwon,2 Pac, and lil john

[Adonis]

Im not much into black music at all. Im not racist, but Im more into the white bands. Then theres New Age, which I love....and Trance.......and Metallica---I LOVE!!!

I love Snoop tho, his old gansta stuff. And the Ying Yang twins. Thats it.

^^ white washed !!! j/k

i like rock bands too..something like Rageagainst machine , Tool , Smashing pumpkins !!

[Alexis]

Well Adonis, youre not the first person to ever say that. So I dont care. But its not that I really am, I just cant help it if I prefer white music to black!!!

[CtrlAltDel]

i've loved black music ever since i heard Hammer...way bck in the early 90s...when he won grammys. among new bands i think Black Eyed Peas r good. i am also an Eminem fan and i like oldies like 2Pac, NotoiousBIG, JayZ, LLCoolJ, Coolio, Salt n Pepa, Dre etc etc etc etc.....

i recently started listening to metal n hard rock...n i've concluded metal isnt for me... rock is better, esp oldies like GnR, Bon Jovi

[CtrlAltDel]

coming back to the subject of accents here's an interesting article:

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Accents Speak louder than Words

- Rahul Phondke



Global communication has indeed become extremely sophisticated today. Anyone can pick up the phone and describe the latest state of his haemorrhoids in an extremely loud irritating tone to his cousin in Honduras provided he is in the middle of an interesting twist of the movie. This was not possible earlier. Earlier , People would have got up and made sure that the aforementioned person was rolled up to the size of Reader’s Digest ( March 1997 issue) and flushed down, had ever anyone crinkled his popcorn wrapper during Amitabh’s soliloquy in Deewar. In the good old days, movies were serious business. Alas, what price progress.



However today despite fabulous advances in communications, which has also made it possible for teenagers to move their thumbs around like a possesed part of their body, which is acting completely on their own to send SMSs, formidable barriers still remain. These are called accents.



Every region has it’s particular accent. Accents can tell you a lot about a person i.e. his ethnic origin, his social strata, his bad breath etc. Being in Singapore, I hear a lot of accents and by now I must have heard "Get lost , will you" in about 40 different accents. The major reason that accents can change is the cultural difference and beer. This was evident by my recent meeting with Shashank Patil ("Shank Patson") who on his trip back "...to Baam-bay fraam Nu Yaak wuz ..Well You knaw really draaing aout his As end rrrolin his aaRs.." all of which ceased after 300 ml of lager. Accents also have had a major role to play in history. The most



significant contribution was to hear my history teacher Ms Cherian narrate the "yentare Eeendian hizdi" in a mallu accent. This used to be so damn interesting that the subsequent guffaws in the class could be picked up on Uranus and ofcourse by Ms Cherian, who did not quite see them in the proper perspective. This myopic vision of hers used to result in stinging palms. Believe me .....Accents do speak louder than words.



In Singapore, staying on the subject, the English that is spoken is a mix of local patois and English, which is referred to as Singlish and unless one is stone deaf the English that is heard is also the same. As a result tourists have a difficult time initially understanding the accent, a problem which they hope will disappear by repeating their questions in a tone which is loud enough to be the basis of an entirely new stream of science as in



Tourist - Do you Have a Chicken Sandwich ?

Waiter -Sandich, don't have

Tourist - DO YOU HAVE A CHICKEN SANDWICH ?

Waiter - Told you already

Tourist (relieved) - ok , turkey is fine.



Chinese accents are distinct too. Chinese is a mono “syllabylic” language, i.e. A word will comprise of 2 syllables at most, hence while speaking english they try to break the words in a similar fashion which sort of makes them go blue in the face when pronouncing “compartmentalisation”. In fact if you ever find yourself as a kidnap victim in China, you can safely tell them that your name is Venkatachalapathy Sivasubramaniam. That is sure to finish them off by apoxia when they try to call your folks for ransom.



Teenagers too have an accent of their own. One of my cousins is a teenager (Teenager – Noun V,ir, T,-s- A life form which thinks anyone below 13 and above 19 is wasting his/her time and their oxygen on this planet). Our conversations have to be carried through an interpreter i.e. His mom, who has given up trying to convince her son to wear jeans which do not have enough space to store emergency rations for a herd of pregnant elephants. Kids, these days.

But despite these “barriers”, accents are what make Life interesting. Variety , I guess indeed is the spice of Life.



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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Rahul Phondke has been a prolific writer of humour ever since his childhood days, which ended sometime last year. A mechanical engineer by training and an IT consultant by profession, he turned to writing humour as a means of finding some meaning to the angst of life.



Thankfully he found it almost immediately after his first two cans of beer. An alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad (he passed out in 1995 much to his relief and the institute's), he recently moved to Germany after seven years in Singapore....a place where people still miss him, especially the Police who are still looking for him.



He plays the Guitar inspite of the numerous death threats by his neighbours and also nurtures a strong passion for acting when his boss passes by his cubicle. He can be contacted at rphondke@iitiim.com. He regularly reads and replies to all mails. Just to make sure that he reads, include the tagline "HOT WILD GIRLS" in the mail subject!!

[ZC]

Butler English....thats what Indian English was called.......when i was in school...........any proper word for Indian English......... like Ebonics ?

[azazel]

any proper word for Indian English......... like Ebonics ?

Hinglish ??



tht guy's hilarious CAD..

[ZC]

any proper word for Indian English......... like Ebonics ?

Hinglish ??

tht guy's hilarious CAD..

then whatz the Telugu form called?



Tinglish or Anglish.........Anglish is better......angla basha

[Johnny]

any proper word for Indian English......... like Ebonics ?

Hinglish ??

tht guy's hilarious CAD..

then whatz the Telugu form called?

Tinglish or Anglish.........Anglish is better......angla basha

Butler Yingleesh

[CtrlAltDel]

Butler Yingleesh

correction: BUTLER YINGLEESHU

[ZC]

and then .....whats the English with a bit of Arabic touch called ?

[black wizard]

and then .....whats the English with a bit of Arabic touch called ?

Al eenqaleesun!



theres no G in arabic.