[Ric-M30040]

Well-spoken English is the ‘language of success’ in this country, and that applies to everyone. Sorry to break the news. Unless you plan on making a living without communicating (and good luck with that), you’ll need to play the game. That means taking the time and making an effort to learn to speak correctly. If you don’t, then by definition, you are lazy.

Sadly, as a business owner, I’ve turned away many workers because they couldn’t speak well: immigrants, back-woods Southerners and Ebonics-speaking applicants. I am a huge fan of office diversity, by the way, but I can’t have someone answering my phones and talking like a moron. What would that say about my company? I’ll take a well-spoken purple pygmy any day over a white male in a double-breasted suit who doesn’t care enough about himself, or our society, to simply learn how to talk.

Also, it doesn’t matter if Ebonics is a ‘real’ language or not. You can’t realistically expect to speak Spanish in the United States and get by, and that’s a bon a fide language spoken by far more people than Ebonics.

To my fellow respondee: Ask any linguist or historian and they will laugh you out of the room with that: French and Italian being the ‘ebonics of Latin’ crapola. Where’d you hear that? The Internet?

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Name : Ric-M30040, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 28, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Communications, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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