Help Wanted
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
August 23, 2010 7:47am CST
Do you speak ebonics? The DOJ wants you! They need somebody to "decode" phone calls and they person must be fluent in ebonics.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/justice-department-seeks-ebonics-experts
If your not sure what that is,
Ebonics has widely been described as a nonstandard variant of English spoken largely by African Americans. John R. Rickford, a Stanford University professor of linguistics, has described it as “Black English” and noted that “Ebonics pronunciation includes features like the omission of the final consonant in words like ‘past’ (pas’ ) and ‘hand’ (han’), the pronunciation of the th in ‘bath’ as t (bat) or f (baf), and the pronunciation of the vowel in words like ‘my’ and ‘ride’ as a long ah (mah, rahd)
so are you qualified?
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3 responses
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
24 Aug 10
I hope never to be qualified for such ridiculous balderdash! The DOJ wants America to be a nation of blithering idiots, much like theselves.
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@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
27 Aug 10
They don't want people to learn English. Divide and conquer is the motivation. Anything they can do to lower America in any way, including education is what they want to do to further weaken our country. Add to that the illegal alien population that has flooded our schools, and which the teachers' union supports, and you can see why our schools can never be a safe place to send our children.
Children need to be taught through love, and the bureacracy of education is anti-love and caring, but is motivated by greed, political correctness and the love of money. No building or classroom that I am aware of is unharmed by this ethos.
@eurekafemme (5874)
• Philippines
23 Aug 10
I don't think I am qualified. My tongue is so twisted that I sometimes missed some letters in a word. How would it sound if I'll be missing more letters. then. That could be very bad and might lead to confusion.
Nah. Nah foh mah.:)
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
23 Aug 10
eh..i can understand some of it..not especially when it's full of regionalisms..but they might be better off hiring a teenager.
a lot of kids speak that way no matter their background.
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