Re: Grammar

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 09:54:57 -0600, Ron Hammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>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.
>> 
>> 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; 
>
>snip
>
>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.

Hog doo doo.

Holger