For those Patios proponents

[Muadib]

please educate me on this Ebonics thing they are talking about in Merica..

Is Ebonics another language like Patios ?

I jus wanna unerstand wha yall are are reprisetn..

[Islandman]

Ebonics is not a separate language, it is more of a dialect with its own linguistic patterns.

However the challenges it presents for inner city blacks with the English language are similar to what our children face.

[Islandman]

Further reading...

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/eb...ngAnthro1.html

[Muadib]

ahh I see..

unnuh gwaan form di fool while we get left behind..

The ongly reason we are having this discussion is because of failed economic policies and lack of opportunity resulting in a form of 'oral illiteracy'..

gwaan fool unnuhselves..