ebonics
IPA: ibˈɔnɪks
Root Word: Ebonics
noun
- African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
- Alternative letter-case form of Ebonics [African American Vernacular English (AAVE).]
Examples of "ebonics" in Sentences
- I do not speak in slang or Ebonics.
- That will probably happen over in Ebonics land.
- He's way off on the Ebonics and vernacular crap.
- She sounds like she studied "ebonics" at Wellesly.
- I agree that ebonics is just a pervasion of english.
- And learn to type in real English, not cyber ebonics.
- To think I used to call ebonics the "new black death."
- To an outside viewer, it seems to be similar to Ebonics.
- Ebonics is not some well conceived design of a language.
- AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by
- The issue is the addition of social criticism of Ebonics.
- A little controversially, it 'also' has an article on Ebonics.
- The proponents of the term Ebonics view and use the word Ebonics only one way.
- Your knowledge of Star Wars ebonics is unparalled, and is truely an inspiration to my Star Wars Galaxies roleplay.
- While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose.
- And again -- to oversimplify all the books mentioned (and not mentioned) as preachy, stereotypical and filled with ebonics, is truly offensive ...
- Our society even went so far in the desire for accommodation to consider teaching "ebonics" in the schools, so that children would not feel culturally out of place.
- Over time, my struggle came when all of my African American friends made fun of the way I tried to emulate their "ebonics" because it sounded strange with my accent.
- She even used some "ebonics," got a little ghetto and threw a "shout out" to third graders in Alaska after she exclaimed that the education system for our children needed an overhaul - Go figure!
- It's because english is a dying language, to be replaced rather quickly by LOLspeak, txtspk, and what is controversially called ebonics in the US (to be in turn eventually replaced with simplified internet compatible mandarin chinese pictograms), and some of us wish to hasten things.