Members DaveW Posted August 26, 2018 Members Share Posted August 26, 2018 Whatever you guys did... You did good and I completely agree. HappyChristian and Jim_Alaska 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members robycop3 Posted March 9, 2019 Members Share Posted March 9, 2019   Being white, but having grown up among blacks, I know that almost all of them, whether they speak ebonics or gullah or not, still understand "ordinaly" American English completely. And I believe a well-known example of this is boxer George Foreman. I remember hearing interviews done with him when he was a contender in the Olympix; he spoke mostly ebonix, but he understood every question asked of him completely. (And we know his speech is much-more-refined now.)  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Salyan Posted March 9, 2019 Moderators Share Posted March 9, 2019 Why wouldn’t Americans understand English? I don’t understand the point of this comment. And please don’t mock people’s regional accents. DaveW, Invicta and Pastor Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members robycop3 Posted March 9, 2019 Members Share Posted March 9, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, Salyan said: Why wouldn’t Americans understand English? I don’t understand the point of this comment. And please don’t mock people’s regional accents.  Sir, more than one of my black friends refers to an ebonics or similar accent as "gullah". I learned that term from them. It's not something I made up nor intended to be demeaning. While that term actually refers to a Creole language used by a certain group of blacks living on the coasts of Georgia & S. Carolina, I learned the term from my black friends in D.C. when I was a boy. Edited March 9, 2019 by robycop3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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