"While the term [ebonics] is avoided by most linguists, it has gained a certain amount of salience outside of academia (such as on Internet message boards), often as the object of ridicule, particularly when it is inaccurately parodied as more different from Standard American English than it really is. Black American linguist John McWhorter argues that the use of Ebonics as a term does more to hinder black academic achievement than to help it, in that considering an ethnic group's slightly-different speech to be a completely different language from English serves only to widen the perceived divide between whites and blacks in America." - Ebonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaYep... That's for sure...
On The Road – arrieve – Saudi Arabia, part 4
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arrieve The final set of Saudi pictures are from Yanbu. There are actually
three cities comprising Yanbu. Yanbu Al-Bahr is the main city on the Red
Sea c...
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