Re: Re : Fw: Sent to me from Georgia

Sam Bryant wrote:

>My response to this, as a native Atlantan and student of the Atlanta Public
>Schools, is that I have never come across a native of Our Fair City who
>spoke that way. Ebonics we have in plenty, but hickphonics? Try thirty
>miles in any direction. (All recieved in good cheer, though; it was quite
>funny.)
Well, what you saw was more of an hyperbole; I've found in either the case
of African-American English and Southern English is you have various degrees
of mixing between American Standard English and the ethnolect.  I dated a
young lady once who was Black, and she didn't talk in a very thick 'Ebonics'
accent (she's from Houston but lives in Cali or somewhere now).  She said
'ax' for 'ask', but nothing like 'I be' for 'I am'.

Same goes for 'Redneck English' -- what Jay wrote about is what a
non-Southerner would hear; we Southerners however are used to this sort of
speech, so we don't hear constant references to Jews (when you really hear
'did you' and such).

Okay, I've soapboxed enough.  I outta do some private research on this...

(You wanna hear something interesting; try Cajun English!)

Danny

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com