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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Ebonics - studying and language?
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In article <5dgkm0$gkc@cletus.bright.net>,
c slicker  <cslick@bright.net> wrote:
>Please this is NOT a reason for ebonics...this is just a way for the black 
>racists to drive a part your children...please leave the hate out let 
>ebonics die.  Plan English is the language of the United States.  Should 
>be the offical language.

	I learned to speak Mid-Atlantic Hillbilly English from my father
and Educated Midwestern English from my mother.  In school, I learned to
write Standard American English and from the media and the street I
learned to recognise and, to some degree, to understand (though not to
speak) Ebonics, Valspeak, Cockney, BBC English, Strine, and countless
other varieties.  Nowhere, however, did I learn this mysterious "Plan
English" that is the language of the United States.

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	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
