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The South Takes a Cue from Oakland

Everyone is familiar with the plan to teach Ebonics in such leftist enclaves as California and Massachusetts. «Ebonics,» a neologism created by combining «Ebony» and «phonics,» is supposed to be the language of the untermenschen, the urban underclass.

Here in the South, we have a similar movement, called «Bubbonics!» Created from mixing «Bubba» and «phonics,» we too have an entirely separate language from English. Like Ebonics, Bubbonics has a slightly different alphabet and different pronunciations from standard English. For example, the English language includes the letter «L» although Bubbonics does not. Likewise, vowel pronunciation in Bubbonics is different from English pronunciation.

Take, for example, the following sentences in English, and their translation into Bubbonics:

Can I help you? Kin ah hip ewe?

Hi, I’m Don Fowler. Hah, ahm Dahn Fah-wah.

The discerning English speaker quickly notices that Bubbonics has fewer vowel sounds than English, and the primary vowel sound is «ah.» The letters A and E are generally replaced with the sound of a short i.

For the advanced scholar, there are actually many interesting comparisons between Ebonics and Bubbonics. Indeed, there have even been suggestions that Ebonics is actually a degraded form of Bubbonics, which is itself a degraded form of English. Consider the following statement in Bubbonics and their counterparts in Ebonics:

Ah axed ewe a quest-shun. I axed you a question, sukka.

Ah be smaht. I be smarts now.

Hooked ahn Bahbahnics wukks fuh me. Hooked on ‘bonics be wukking fo me.

If you’re a native English speaker, and you can read the writing on the wall, then you know that your native tongue is soon to be as dead as Latin, spoken only in weird rituals or taught to kids in prep school.

And if you’re a native English speaker and you CAN’T read the writing on the wall, it’s probably already in Bubbonics or Ebonics, and you’re just that far behind.

Gracefully surrender the things of your youth. Clean air. Tuna. Taiwan. The English language. And remember: Bilingual Education means teaching kids to be illiterate in two languages.



Рассказ где я был летом на английском.
Video and computer games are extremely popular nowadays.

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The South Takes a Cue from Oakland