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On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 06:27:56 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 9/17/16 12:19 AM, wrote:




So Ebonics will end up dying a death by natural selection.


Anglo-Saxon (Old English) did. Latin has, for the most part. So has
ancient Greek. These old languages evolved into something else and then
for the most part died out. Evolution in action, as it were.


Unfortunately this is not the evolution towards a better language. It
is simply illiterate people taking over the current one. It is no
surprise that we have so many unemployable people. We are migrating
toward a service economy, like it or not and the question becomes
whether you would hire a customer contact person who speaks like a
"gangsta".