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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 399755" data-attributes="member: 63">'Ebonics' is the term a few scholars came up with to refer to the common dialect of English used by a lot of black people in the United States.&nbsp; Aside from sparking a controversy over whether people should be allowed to officially claim it as a language, the goal of defining Ebonics was to help teachers better educate black students who were having trouble speaking standard English.I went to a 90% black high school, so I was exposed to the dialect a lot, but sadly over the past few years since I graduated, my ability to recall what it sounds like has deteriorated.&nbsp; It mostly consists of changing the way verbs are conjugated, especially with helping verbs.I'm probably getting this wrong, but some examples would be:&quot;You done pissed me off.&quot;&nbsp; Meaning, &quot;You have pissed me off.&quot;&quot;I be going to the store.&quot;&nbsp; Meaning, &quot;I am going to the store.&quot;Also, sometimes words are just pronounced differently, like saying &quot;I wanna aks you a question.&quot;Overall it's not really hard to understand in its most basic forms, but when combined with a huge amount of slang, it can be somewhat hard to understand it being spoken.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 399755, member: 63"] 'Ebonics' is the term a few scholars came up with to refer to the common dialect of English used by a lot of black people in the United States. Aside from sparking a controversy over whether people should be allowed to officially claim it as a language, the goal of defining Ebonics was to help teachers better educate black students who were having trouble speaking standard English. I went to a 90% black high school, so I was exposed to the dialect a lot, but sadly over the past few years since I graduated, my ability to recall what it sounds like has deteriorated. It mostly consists of changing the way verbs are conjugated, especially with helping verbs. I'm probably getting this wrong, but some examples would be: "You done pissed me off." Meaning, "You have pissed me off." "I be going to the store." Meaning, "I am going to the store." Also, sometimes words are just pronounced differently, like saying "I wanna aks you a question." Overall it's not really hard to understand in its most basic forms, but when combined with a huge amount of slang, it can be somewhat hard to understand it being spoken. [/QUOTE]

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