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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I mean the speech where people talk over each other and say the same thing over and over again without proper diction. Like on a Ricki Lake show (although I hear this in public also, but just by way of example) when one woman screams, "And what? And what? And what? I din' axe you..." while the other is screaming at the same time "Step off, bitch, Step off, step off, step off, you don' know me." I associate that with ebonics (not black people, but the style of speech). You don't often hear people with proper British accents, for example, talking over each other like that.
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Ebonics was the Oakland, CA school district's name for what was called black english vernacular when I studied linguistics, and african-american english vernacular now.
The ignorant behavior you describe is not representative of bev/aaev. It is representative of that distinct subculture of people of any race who would appear on the Ricki Lake show.
Edited to mention the correct trash show.
