I'm just curious if when you text if you do it in normal sentences or use Ebonics like this. "She BIN had dat han'-made dress" It seems to me that writing in that language form would be far more difficult so that normal English would be used. Am I correct in that assumption, for those of you who do use that dialect that is. I know not all do.
Because of the apostrophe? Seriously? What about languages that use umlauts or tildes...it must be hell to not text in English.
I'm assuming you're aware that only black Americans use different speech patterns (to the general populace). Black people in the UK, Europe, Australia, etc, sound exactly the same as everyone else. Literally, you cannot discern someone's race via voice, if they were born in that nation. Listen to black Scotsmen, or black Frenchmen, or black Yorkshiremen. There is something wrong with America, that there is not cohesion on something as fundamental as language.
Your point is that it's difficult to text in anything but English? Emojis are punctuation. All texting is short hand stuff.
Something is wrong with America? Move to Scotland or France then. Accents and dialects are normal all over the world. That's a good thing. You want everyone to sound the same? Like what? A southerner? A New Yorker? Wtf?
You really think it's more difficult? What about the alt righters with all their parentheses and stuff. Must be hard.
So you think a Scotsman sounds the same as a Londoner? And a rural Frenchman from the south sounds the same as the Parisian? I'll assume you haven't travelled much.
Nope I haven't. And this is a question thread so I can improve my knowledge so there is no criticizing allowed.
Where did i say that? Assuming you are from America....I guess we do have a language problem. I said accents and dialects are normal all over the world.
Nothing to do with this conversation. This is about people from THE SAME PLACE sounding completely different.
I am not American. And this thread is about RACIAL differences in speech patterns, not GEOGRAPHICAL differences.
This thread is about the supposed difficulty of texting using Ebonics. As far as racial differences in speech patterns...why do you think it all comes down to race...and more importantly, why do you think there is something wrong with that?
Texter argot is far worse than ebonics IMO. Ebonics has a Southern lyrical quality to it that comes through even in print, but especially spoken, oldie but goodie: To preempt reeeeeees from the LW brain trust, the clip is from the Wayans "In Living Color" in the 90s. Back before the LW killed humor in the U.S.
I DON'T think it does ... I'm pointing to the fact that only in America do you see different speech patterns in different races (amongst those born in the same place). And there's something VERY wrong with that because it can only happen when groups are isolated from each other by race. It's 2019, not 1950.
The dialect you use here on this message board exposes you as a typical ignorant Arizona bigot with very little education. Your obvious insults aimed at African Americans is disgusting and quite transparent. Go out and capture some scorpions and tarantulas.
I don't see that as being true nor necessarily bad. People come from different cultures. People could live right next door to each other and speak differently, with different accents. Kids tend to change though, depending on where they grow up. But they will still be influenced by their parents, and where they are from, and influenced by their friends and current speaking trends. A lot of people all over the country talk like valley girls....but they're not from the valley. A lot of "white" people sound "black". A lot of black people sound "white". Thinking any of this is "wrong" seems wrong to me.
