These People CRAZY!

Two thoughts on Ye Ol' Ebonics...

1) In our sicko-consumeristic-feed-me-with-more-of-that-cheap-ass-junk-from-Target society, I'd like to take a moment to recognize a true center of creativity in U.S. culture - Ebonics/African-American Vernacular/Rapper Lyrics. No, Mr. Rapper Guy, I don't like what you say about women, substance abuse, clan warfare and anarchy, but your twisted heart still beats out a glimmer of the Imago Dei. Your heart still brings forth creativity, that one certain characteristic of those made in God's image. Every three months, you've got a new turn of phrase. Thank you.

2) As an English professor, I'll add my voice to the crowd who claims (though they don't say much these days) that Ebonics (African American Vernacular) is a rather sophisticated, rule-abiding vernacular. Does that make it another language? No...but an interesting, valid dialect? Yes.

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In other news, I got wife'd.

Got Wife'd: /got wyft / phr v, colloq - To be suddenly, without warning or cause, reminded by a fellow converser that he has a wife. This action happens primarily when single women engage in thoughtful and interesting conversations with married men and is believed to indicate an enormous amount of egoism on the part of the male who deludes himself with the false fantasy of irresistible masculine virility. Other studies suggest getting wife'd is more of a defensive move, used by the male to vocally remind himself that he does indeed have a wife. In these studies, getting wife'd was proceeded by the enlarging of the male genitalia and a sudden drop of blood flow to the brain. To get wife'd, getting wife'd, got wife'd. Varient: Done been wife'd.

I'm sick of getting wife'd - go get yo'self a counselor.

Out.

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 1/28/2008 10:31:00 AM

 

Comments:

Hmm, you do me proud, little one, in castigating those who in our society speak for only themselves or for themselves - leaving the rest of us in the lurch.

# by:  Anonymous : 2:49 PM

 

Incidentally, I get wife'd all the time, but I did find it funny that within 16 hours of writing this post, I got wife'd a second time! Geez! Buddy! You're not that hot!

# by:  Headless-in-GR : 10:54 PM

 

Okay, this post was truly funny. Having grown up in the big D, I get the whole ebonics thing, which most in our community don't. In fact I got a lecture from my kids a while ago because of a comment that they thought was, let's say, "off-color". Good old diversity training...thank you, public schools.

Got wife'd, huh? Never heard that term, but I can see that. Remember, it's not necessarily that you're thinking/doing something...they're probably saying something to remind themselves that they're married! Haha!

# by:  Kim : 9:06 AM

 

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