Re: Grammar

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:31:56 -0800, Joni Rathbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Holger Dansk wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>About the only pronounciation on your list that is uniquely "black"
>is acks.
>
And our current President last I looked was white and his
mispronunciations are only overshadowed by his misuse of
words.



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