File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-08.181, message 11


Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 02:39:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Chegitz Guevara <mluziett-AT-shrike.depaul.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Hooked on Ebonics



Interestingly enough, the two best "speakers" of Ebonics are both white. 
One is from a Black neighborhood, the other from an all white
neighborhood.  Neither speaks standard English, thought they both
understand it perfectly, or so it seems.  

No Black people that I know speak Ebonics (at least in front of me).  I
have however, noticed that Black people use different speach patterns,
intonations, pitch, volume, etc., with each other than they use with white
folks. Time and again I have had the amusement of watching my finacee's
speach change as we walk into her grandmother's house, or around her Black
friends.

Question, at what point to Black speach patterns change from being an
accent and become Ebonics?

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
personal homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett
political homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett/chegitz.html

"At Christmas, the Marxists are as nice as Christians." - Karl Marx, 1867



     --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---


   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005