Comments on: Cartoons From 1940s Grammar Books

By: a2

a2 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:52:43 +0000

Ah, if only they still teach grammar today with these …

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:09:42 +0000

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”.

Word.

By: billy

billy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:04:08 +0000

Q, that’s an idiotic thing to think.
2008, for your intellectual growth.

By: Q

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:13:26 +0000

If you speak poorly or use the language incorrectly you need only call it ebonics and its O.K.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:19:46 +0000

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…