Re: Grammar

Holger Dansk wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:11:48 GMT, "Byron Canfield"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >"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.
> 
> Haven't you noticed how many negroes say...
> "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; 

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Lol.  The "correct way" is the same as "ant"?  This is funny.  The
"correct" way is NOT the same as "ant".  This is the only word, as far
as I know, that blacks have right.  Why do you think that there is a "u"
in there?  Before the war, "House niggers" spoke proper English in the
fine mansions of the very wealthy.  Lower-class rednecks said "ant",
"ain't", and "aunt" the same way.  The word, "aunt" is the legacy of
that time when some blacks spoke far, far better than most whites.

-- 
Ron Hammon
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