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"Try that again in English?"
Why are white people so obsessed with grammar and punctuation?
Every forum you go on. Whites always pointing out someone's grammar.
Many ppl in the world worry about hunger or being poor. If you ask a white person, they'll say "people who use ‘their’ when they mean ‘there.’"
If you ask a white person to proof read your shit before you send it out.
They'll love it.
“Hey White Person. I'm sending this cover letter out for this job. Can you look this over for me and see if it's ok?”
It's scientifically proven that it's impossible for a white person to turn down the opportunity to proofread.
I've always thought that clinging on to good grammar is like hanging on to a skill that will never come back into popularity, or usefulness.
Kind of like saying, “I was the best quarterback in my high school.”
When was the last time you ever heard anyone say, “He’s really smart, you can tell by his grammar.”
Or even, “She WILL be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company one day…she has excellent grammar
All new languages started off as slang.
Then they gradually became more formalized with their own rules until they evolved into a new language altogether.
How did you get French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian from Latin?
The English language is a language born of change. There isn’t a single word that you use today who’s original meaning or spelling hasn’t been altered.
So long as you are capable of expressing yourself in a way that satisfies your needs, than language has done it’s job.
I think what Ebonics shows is that whites and blacks in America to an extent live in cultural isolation from one another.
From this cultural isolation will be born new modes of speech which if allowed to go on for long enough will become separate languages.
Ebonics is just another variety of English, like Irish English, Scottish English, Welsh English, Jamaican English.
And yet for all whites insistence on proper grammar n speech they try to talk in "ebonics" to make them sound cool !