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| Feds Looking for Experts in Ebonics |
| 2010-08-23 |
| The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records. A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media” 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).” |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #5 My tongue is bleeding, but I'm not going to let them send me to the sink rap. I just can't ake it. Not again. Not when it's so easy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-08-23 20:26 |
| #4 Old linguist´s joke: What´s the difference between a dialect and a language? A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. |
| Posted by: Grunter in Puno 2010-08-23 19:18 |
| #3 Do you speak..... Ebonics? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-08-23 18:11 |
| #2 You, You, You mean they're just too (Gasp) lazy to pronounce the whole word, so they (Gulp) drop a part and fool you Overeducated morons into thinking its a new "Language"? No Morons it's clled "Dialect". (From Google) •The term dialect (from the Greek Language word dialektos, ÄéÜëåêôïò) is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. OR (Wikipedia) but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. "Cockney" comes immediately to mind. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-08-23 18:02 |
| #1 Assignment: Please translate the following Rap song lyrics from Ebonics to standard English. Artist: Notorious B.I.G. Album: Ready to Die Song: One more chance (remix) Lyrics: First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys Dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin money Those the ones I like cause they dont get nathan But penetration, unless it smells like sanitation Garbage, I turn like doorknobs Heart throb, never, black and ugly as ever However, I stay coochied down to the socks Rings and watch filled with rocks TRANSLATION: As a general rule, I perform deviant sexual acts with women of all kinds, including but not limited to those with limited intellect, nude magazine models, and prostitutes. I particularly enjoy sexual encounters with the latter group as they are generally disappointed in the fact that they only receive penile intercourse and nothing more, unless of course, they douche on a consistent basis. Although I am extremely unattractive, I am able to engage in these types of sexual acts with some regularity. Perhaps my sexuality is somehow related to my fancy and expensive jewelry. |
| Posted by: Sleque Barnsmell1141 2010-08-23 17:52 |