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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Ebonics?
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 18:19:02 GMT
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	This seems like more a political issue than anything else. But 
then again, there's the old joke that "a language is a dialect with an army".

	And it's interesting that there's no big controversy about 
Southern accents, for example.

	I get the impression that the Oakland school board has been 
misunderstood, that it is trying to teach black schoolchildren to be 
bi-dialectal, which seems to be common in some parts of the world.
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