1996-12-22 - Re: The Ebonic Plague

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From: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
To: “Timothy C. May” <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: c99202862638665ef6bcbf8a48e49699c4cf182730d8fe5b1dacd104040ac2bb
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UTC Datetime: 1996-12-22 00:20:32 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:20:32 -0800 (PST)

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From: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:20:32 -0800 (PST)
To: "Timothy C. May" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Ebonic Plague
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Two minor points:

First, Ebonics (Black English) is grammatical, but its grammar differs
from that of standard American English.

Second, from what I heard on the news, Oakland wants to call it a
separate language because they discovered that they got better results
teaching standard English to Black students if they used secondary
language techniques, as opposed to treating Black English constructions
as "wrong" or "inferior."

Martin Minow
minow@apple.com

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• 1996-12-21 (Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:16:15 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - “Matthew J. Miszewski” <mjmiski@execpc.com>
  • 1996-12-21 (Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:55:24 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
    • 1996-12-21 (Fri, 20 Dec 1996 23:10:22 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
      • 1996-12-22 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:20:32 -0800 (PST)) - Re: The Ebonic Plague - Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
    • 1996-12-21 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 09:04:03 -0800 (PST)) - The Ebonic Plague - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
      • 1996-12-21 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:04:44 -0800 (PST)) - Re: The Ebonic Plague - Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
    • 1996-12-21 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:10:21 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
    • 1996-12-22 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:14:41 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - lucifer@dhp.com (Anonymous)
    • 1996-12-22 (Sat, 21 Dec 1996 21:25:15 -0800 (PST)) - Re: Ebonics - Rich Graves <rcgraves@disposable.com>