RSSCartoons From 1940s Grammar Books
By Alex in Comics & Cartoons on Jan 2, 2008 at 4:24 am
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Sid Morrison
Nowadays, kids are taught that grammar isn’t very important, as long as they are “creative”. Spelling is optional as well. Why constrain oneself to teh rules of othography? With writers like Cormac McCarthy earning the accolades they do, it’s no wonder…
Q
If you speak poorly or use the language incorrectly you need only call it ebonics and its O.K.
billy
Q, that’s an idiotic thing to think.
2008, for your intellectual growth.
Sid Morrison
Q-
You are so dated! You can’t call it ebonics anymore!
It is now the “dialect of African American Vernacular English”, which is of course, a much more scholarly designation. If it sounds better, it must be better, right?
It keeps changing names every couple of years in an effort to give it some legitimacy: “Black English”, “Black English Vernacular”, or in my day just “Jive”.
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