NO, IT BLOODY ISN’T!
(So the exclamation has been typed.)
Being from our current school system, she would not have clue what prober English is.!
Question: How did that person ever become an English teacher?
Answer: For the final exam, her professor looked at her and said “Name two pronouns!” and she replied “Who, me?”
I don’t know, I follow Instapundit. If she works at a public school, she probably knows a lot about probing. Probably not so much with the English, though đ
This is just another step in the logical progression of the dumbing down our society. We are slowing being conditioned to return to being serfs.
Even professional race baiter Jesse Jackson said years ago to young black people,” who is going to give you a job if they can’t understand what you’re saying”, or words to that effect.
The worst thing racist white liberals ever did to blacks was to glorify their gangsta culture and their incomprehensible speech.
Leftist flakes call it leveling the playing field.
I plead guilty
I wish they’d determined algebra to be racist back in the 80s so I wouldn’t have had to take it.
The “activist’s” killer questions:
“Who created the rules?”
Answer: good writers.
“And who benefits from them?”
Answer: anybody that has to read and understand.
Thomas Sowell has a lot to say on this very topic. So called “Ebonics” is nothing more than the English of the ill-educated overseers of the slaves of the antebellum south. It derived generally from the mixed Gaelic and English of the central Scottish highlands and North English midlands used by the lowest of the working and agricultural classes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ebonics is as racially oppressive as one can get.
She said:
âAs educated (an’ – okay – snarky) activists, we’s quick ta respond ta âAccording ta da dictionaryâ arguments wif âWho wrote da dictionary, though?â âwe’s dig’ dat uh reference guide created by uh whitey supremacist, heteropatriarchal system do nuttin’ but uphold dat status quo.â âSimilarly, we’s gots ta use dat line o’ thinkin` when jivin’ bout the cracker-ass english language: Who created da rules? an’ who benefits from dem?” Don’ make me come ova there *****
Translation from http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator
I was on March 3. At room 608 Hamilton court witnessed bazar mentally ill hounorable! Mafia Ramsey as ontario superior court. The lady with white hair showed up said I recieved service from plaintiff lawyers. She said with Rusian or romanian kind of accent, that she need two weeks to hire lawyer and able to some one explain about material before her. Justice Murray said no. You lost pay fees to other party too. I was outraged seeing mafia judge run show in justice system with perfect speak write English humuliate people who does not know English. When they asked everybody RISE for judge I seated said what! Didyou said I do not understand why I should respect rise for judge who has no respect for people with english as second langguage not give time to defend themselves justice Murray pig. Face ban a lady ceased her for any communication with lawyer other party except once every 6 month! What f** he passed ethic course law that by ethic law court MUST pay free translator for thhat lady to explain laws.
I believe it was Chris Rock, responding to the push at the time to ‘teach’ Ebonics at schools, who said “There’s a word for people who speak Ebonics – “Unemployed””.
So the next time ok shows up, pay attention.
There is no such thing as “proper English” in popular parlance thanks to public ed mediocrity and PC toxic influence on the meaning of words.
– and language cannot possibly be racist as it is simply a tool of communication, like self-professed social justices warriors are tools of a very errant and destructive ideology.
Someone should tell that to this cave-dwelling commie pedagogue doosh.
yo, yo, yo
His Sock puppet flew in and dropped a load earlier.
Does anybody get the distinct feeling that those that went to school for a long time, took “humanities”, got a tenure, have tendency to degenerative brain disorder?
Social justice movement…..
Is that like Michael Mann’s “cause”…?
oldnews is a good handle for you ok.
You are in Canada now not Sandlandastan and in Canada when the judge comes in, woman or not, you stand up as a show of respect for the LAWS of this country.
“Does anybody get the distinct feeling that those that went to school for a long time, took ‘humanities’, got a tenure, have tendency to degenerative brain disorder?”
And just who do you think the grammar pedants and schoolmasters behind putative “proper” English were?
They certainly weren’t engineers and chemists, they were the people who took “humanities” and got tenure.
Actually this item exposes two divergent but equally wrong-headed notions about the nature of language.
On one side there is a predictable activist spouting predictable gibberish like “a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system”.
On the other is a predictable pedant spouting predictable pedantries about “proper English” (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean).
Two word to refute her entire mindset: Sidney Poitier.
I grew in up a small Northern Ontario community. My family and friends were all of the same class, all had the same education. I have had more success in life, in part because I no longer sound like the less successful of them still do, i.e., as if they are trying out for “most incoherent hillbilly”.
So was my East Indian high school English teacher racist because he spoke with an Oxbridge accent? Did he hate white people or brown people?
âYo! Donât you go jockinâ my style. Donât dis me my man or the next sound yu hear will be booya. Yu know what Iâm sayinâ?
Got to dip. Peace out.
I thought that might have come from the scholarly pundits of rabble.ca. Couple years back they were up in arms over science and math too because the principles could be used to develop atomic bombs and weapons.
Good lord. It was a friggin science fiction book! How long will it be until one of these leftwing meat holes actually comes out and says it and means it: Ignorance Is Bliss…
The more power that the Hispanics get in American society, the less they are going to care about Black victimization. The new Hispanic ‘Dreamers’ are already taking jobs from the unskilled Black populace. Hispanics are also agitating for a bilingual America,(English/Spanish) and large sections of Black America can’t be bothered with speaking proper English so they aren’t going to get very far with an Ebonics laced Spanglish.
“I was on March 3”.
What? Born on March 3?
You type very well for someone who is only 2 days old. Keep it up, in a few years you might be comprehensible.
The same people spouting this nonsense are quick to demonize any white Americans from the hinterlands speaking less than perfect diction; think Sarah Palin for example. At the same time, the President gets a complete pass, though considering the elite private schools he has attended, his language skills are pretty sloppy. He really likes dropping those rs. A bit of a double standard in play here.
People calling themselves linguists describe this phenomenon in terms of “prescriptive grammar” — often pejoratively.
It comes down to the seemingly increasingly unreasonable proposition of norms.. namely reasonable expectations among reasonable people. Utterances, blog comments, tweets, fiction novels, academic papers, etc.. not all have or should be reasonably expected to have identical grammars.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
From “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1961
Don’t axe me to beleeeve dat………….
If ‘ok’ learned to speak Ebonics, that would be a step in the right direction.
NO, IT BLOODY ISN’T!
(So the exclamation has been typed.)
Being from our current school system, she would not have clue what prober English is.!
Question: How did that person ever become an English teacher?
Answer: For the final exam, her professor looked at her and said “Name two pronouns!” and she replied “Who, me?”
I don’t know, I follow Instapundit. If she works at a public school, she probably knows a lot about probing. Probably not so much with the English, though đ
This is just another step in the logical progression of the dumbing down our society. We are slowing being conditioned to return to being serfs.
Even professional race baiter Jesse Jackson said years ago to young black people,” who is going to give you a job if they can’t understand what you’re saying”, or words to that effect.
The worst thing racist white liberals ever did to blacks was to glorify their gangsta culture and their incomprehensible speech.
Leftist flakes call it leveling the playing field.
I plead guilty
I wish they’d determined algebra to be racist back in the 80s so I wouldn’t have had to take it.
The “activist’s” killer questions:
“Who created the rules?”
Answer: good writers.
“And who benefits from them?”
Answer: anybody that has to read and understand.
Thomas Sowell has a lot to say on this very topic. So called “Ebonics” is nothing more than the English of the ill-educated overseers of the slaves of the antebellum south. It derived generally from the mixed Gaelic and English of the central Scottish highlands and North English midlands used by the lowest of the working and agricultural classes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ebonics is as racially oppressive as one can get.
She said:
âAs educated (an’ – okay – snarky) activists, we’s quick ta respond ta âAccording ta da dictionaryâ arguments wif âWho wrote da dictionary, though?â âwe’s dig’ dat uh reference guide created by uh whitey supremacist, heteropatriarchal system do nuttin’ but uphold dat status quo.â âSimilarly, we’s gots ta use dat line o’ thinkin` when jivin’ bout the cracker-ass english language: Who created da rules? an’ who benefits from dem?” Don’ make me come ova there *****
Translation from http://joel.net/EBONICS/translator
I was on March 3. At room 608 Hamilton court witnessed bazar mentally ill hounorable! Mafia Ramsey as ontario superior court. The lady with white hair showed up said I recieved service from plaintiff lawyers. She said with Rusian or romanian kind of accent, that she need two weeks to hire lawyer and able to some one explain about material before her. Justice Murray said no. You lost pay fees to other party too. I was outraged seeing mafia judge run show in justice system with perfect speak write English humuliate people who does not know English. When they asked everybody RISE for judge I seated said what! Didyou said I do not understand why I should respect rise for judge who has no respect for people with english as second langguage not give time to defend themselves justice Murray pig. Face ban a lady ceased her for any communication with lawyer other party except once every 6 month! What f** he passed ethic course law that by ethic law court MUST pay free translator for thhat lady to explain laws.
I believe it was Chris Rock, responding to the push at the time to ‘teach’ Ebonics at schools, who said “There’s a word for people who speak Ebonics – “Unemployed””.
So the next time ok shows up, pay attention.
There is no such thing as “proper English” in popular parlance thanks to public ed mediocrity and PC toxic influence on the meaning of words.
– and language cannot possibly be racist as it is simply a tool of communication, like self-professed social justices warriors are tools of a very errant and destructive ideology.
Someone should tell that to this cave-dwelling commie pedagogue doosh.
yo, yo, yo
His Sock puppet flew in and dropped a load earlier.
Does anybody get the distinct feeling that those that went to school for a long time, took “humanities”, got a tenure, have tendency to degenerative brain disorder?
Social justice movement…..
Is that like Michael Mann’s “cause”…?
oldnews is a good handle for you ok.
You are in Canada now not Sandlandastan and in Canada when the judge comes in, woman or not, you stand up as a show of respect for the LAWS of this country.
“Does anybody get the distinct feeling that those that went to school for a long time, took ‘humanities’, got a tenure, have tendency to degenerative brain disorder?”
And just who do you think the grammar pedants and schoolmasters behind putative “proper” English were?
They certainly weren’t engineers and chemists, they were the people who took “humanities” and got tenure.
Actually this item exposes two divergent but equally wrong-headed notions about the nature of language.
On one side there is a predictable activist spouting predictable gibberish like “a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system”.
On the other is a predictable pedant spouting predictable pedantries about “proper English” (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean).
Two word to refute her entire mindset: Sidney Poitier.
I grew in up a small Northern Ontario community. My family and friends were all of the same class, all had the same education. I have had more success in life, in part because I no longer sound like the less successful of them still do, i.e., as if they are trying out for “most incoherent hillbilly”.
So was my East Indian high school English teacher racist because he spoke with an Oxbridge accent? Did he hate white people or brown people?
âYo! Donât you go jockinâ my style. Donât dis me my man or the next sound yu hear will be booya. Yu know what Iâm sayinâ?
Got to dip. Peace out.
I thought that might have come from the scholarly pundits of rabble.ca. Couple years back they were up in arms over science and math too because the principles could be used to develop atomic bombs and weapons.
Good lord. It was a friggin science fiction book! How long will it be until one of these leftwing meat holes actually comes out and says it and means it: Ignorance Is Bliss…
The more power that the Hispanics get in American society, the less they are going to care about Black victimization. The new Hispanic ‘Dreamers’ are already taking jobs from the unskilled Black populace. Hispanics are also agitating for a bilingual America,(English/Spanish) and large sections of Black America can’t be bothered with speaking proper English so they aren’t going to get very far with an Ebonics laced Spanglish.
“I was on March 3”.
What? Born on March 3?
You type very well for someone who is only 2 days old. Keep it up, in a few years you might be comprehensible.
The same people spouting this nonsense are quick to demonize any white Americans from the hinterlands speaking less than perfect diction; think Sarah Palin for example. At the same time, the President gets a complete pass, though considering the elite private schools he has attended, his language skills are pretty sloppy. He really likes dropping those rs. A bit of a double standard in play here.
People calling themselves linguists describe this phenomenon in terms of “prescriptive grammar” — often pejoratively.
It comes down to the seemingly increasingly unreasonable proposition of norms.. namely reasonable expectations among reasonable people. Utterances, blog comments, tweets, fiction novels, academic papers, etc.. not all have or should be reasonably expected to have identical grammars.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
From “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1961
Don’t axe me to beleeeve dat………….
If ‘ok’ learned to speak Ebonics, that would be a step in the right direction.
Me fail english…. that’s unpossible