Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
I wasn't aware of the disdain- could you show me?
Originally posted by Victor Von DoomI detected sarcasm. If I was wrong I apologize
This is mostly based upon your persistent claim that a dialect refers exclusively to a geographical area, which, as your own dictionary.com quote demonstrates, is wrong.
I am against Ebonics, and the people who are for it, I believe they really do not understand the purpose of language, language isn't just a bunch of frequency sounds, it represents logic which is related to how we use MATH, and construct laws, I feel that it's to the disadvantage for blacks to enforce this type of diction and language just because of something that happened 400 years ago....and wanting to tie down anyone who doesn't agree via peer pressure and conduits.
(History, experience in college)
I had moved away from my other college campus to save money, and moved with two black ladies, both seemed nice enough, BOTH OF THEM HATED MY SPEECH, and one black lady who forced her way into a lease (and I didn't want her there b/c I felt she was different in culture, well, it was true, )when I would talk, she would close her ears while I spoke and said she can't understand me and asked me why did I sound that way. She moved out but was a real pain in the ass. Funny, my college roommates from Europe were the BEST!!! We got along really well, but the ones who were black, nope, they wanted to change me and saw me as a project to change, and that pissed me off. Part of that was to mock my speech and try to use peer pressure to make me sound more "black". I couldn't wait to finish up and get out of there.