Cain’s Latest Gaffe: Thinks ‘Cuban’ Is A Language

[francoHFW]

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[tinydancer]

Ebonics?

I think it was somewhere in the 70's or 80's when I remember the term showing up. Makes sense. Ebony and phonics. And just take a look at North America and the English language.

No way on the planet can one confuse the English language spoken on our wonderous island called Newfoundland with the English spoken in Watts or the English spoken in Alabama.

But we are all labelled as speaking English, but really we are not. Trust me. My mother who really believed in speaking the Queen's English almost had a coronary when I came back from living in Tennessee after many a year and I told her I was "fixin to go to the store". lol, I thought she was going to stroke out on me when I tried to explain Southern grammar to her.

You should read John McWhorter's "Word on the Street: Debunking the myth of a "pure" standard English".

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Word-Street-Debunking-Standard-English/dp/0738204463]Amazon.com: Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English (9780738204468): John Mcwhorter, Ph.D., John McWhorter: Books[/ame]

Hey thanks. I'll check that out.

As someone pointed out earlier in the thread all you have to do is look at the different ways you can interpret "fag" .

In Britain if you asked someone if they wanted to step outside the pub and suck a fag with you, we're talking lighting up a cigarette.

You say that in a bar in Hickman County and you're going to get the ever lovin shit kicked out of you.



But both scenarios are using the english language.

 

[GHook93]

Good find, but Lakhota is too dense to believe the opposite!

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

liar liar pants on fire

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped
Nov 12 11:33 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin—not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.

Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.

And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."

Stein later realized he'd been had.

"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."

 

[Sunshine]

Best case scenario.........Cain switches party and gets on the ticket with Obama!

Shit, if he is nominated this may be the year I vote green.

for real, he can bring some genuine blackness to the ticket.

I'm sure that isn't what they want! LOL

 

[Sunshine]

Cain's Latest Gaffe: Thinks 'Cuban' Is A Language | ThinkProgress

Cain cuban language - YouTube

Are you unaware that there are dialect differences?

Put it this way, "coche" is the Spanish word for "car." Don't ever use that word when talking to someone from Mexico or Puerto Rico. It is or sounds similar to a vulgar term. It is completely appropriate to ask someone how to say a word or phrase in a dialect.

Your criticism shows your ignorance because Cuban immigrants don't identify themselves as "Spanish," nor even "Hispanic." It would have been rude to ask, "How do I say this in Spanish?" Based on my growing up among Cuban immigrants it's best to either ask "How do you say it in your language?" or "How do you say it it Cuba?"

Good on Cain for not offending the crowd.

Cuban is no more a language than Hillbilly is.

GASP~! Shirley! You jest!

Hillbilly Talk

 

[Sunshine]

Cuban is no more a language than Hillbilly is.

It appears you are ignorant of both then. Go ahead and ask for a "fag" in Appalachia. After all, it's what they call cigarettes in England. Feel free to ask a Cuban father to take his daughter for a ride in the "coche."

I guess that means that Ebonics is not "incorrect" English, it is really its own unique language.

Game, set and match.

In Nashville a few years back they were going to force a teacher to teach ebonics. She chose to resign rather than to do so.

 

[Flaylo]

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

and obama thought they speak austrian in austria

*shrug*

There is a such thing as "Austrian German"

Austrian German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He wasn't as bad as Cain.

 

[GHook93]

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

and obama thought they speak austrian in austria

*shrug*

There is a such thing as "Austrian German"

Austrian German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He wasn't as bad as Cain.

Austrians speak German, and Cuban speak Spanish. How is it different?

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

kind of funny and sad at the same time.