Re: Grammar

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Holger Dansk wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:31:56 -0800, Joni Rathbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Holger Dansk wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:11:48 GMT, "Byron Canfield"
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >"Holger Dansk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:14 -0800, Joni Rathbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >In my district, immigrant children for whom English is a second
> >> >> >language score higher on reading/language arts measures than native
> >> >> >born African Americans.
> >> >>
> >> >> Many native born African Americans (negroes) don't seem to be able to
> >> >> learn how to pronounce English even though negroes have been in this
> >> >> country for a couple of hundred years.
> >> >>
> >> >The operative words there are "don't seem" -- which is merely a statement
> >> >regarding your preception, nothing more.
> >>
> >> Well, what's your perception?  Haven't you noticed how many negroes say,
> >> "foh" for four, "poelice" for police, "Presidennnt" for President,
> >> "Aunt" pronounced to rhyme with "up" and "but" instead of the correct
> >> way which rhymes with "cat" and "man", and is pronounced the same as
> >> ant; "incidennnt" for incident, "evidennnce" for evidence, "weck" for
> >> work, "acks" for ask, "paymennnt" for payment, "Eyerock" for Iraq.  The
> >> "I" in Iraq rhymes with the ones in "in" and "hit", and the "a" in Iraq
> >> rhymes with the ones in "cat" and "man".  These are just a few examples.
> >> The list is very long.
> >>
> >
> >About the only pronounciation on your list that is uniquely "black"
> >is acks.
> >
> Well, the times I've heard these pronunciations were practically all
> black people.  The fact that a few ignorant poor white trash white
> people pronounce this way is really unimportant.

Some of your examples can be found among well educated whites.
Been to Boston?

We know by reading your list you haven't been to the ghetto.

BTW, it's ih-rock, not ih-rack.