Yesterday, The New York Times had a story about a young black woman from tough streets in Jersey City who is coaching an actress on playing her in a movie. She mentioned teaching the actress how to "speak Ebonics the correct way."
To be sure, the example the girl gives is a matter of having the freshest slang. But then few people besides linguists have much but a vague sense of what grammar is, and then, the typical white youngster would be unlikely to refer to their in-group slang as a matter of "correct" versus "wrong." In this girl's comment, we might hear an easy linguistic confidence that is exactly what "Ebonics" advocates see as lacking in speakers of the dialect.
This week marks a milestone -- a tragic one, some would say -- in the history of American English. Ten years ago this week, the movie "Clueless," starring Alicia Silverstone, was released. And our language was, like, forever changed.
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Yeah, as I said at the beginning, the colors are up to you guys. I just picked a random color combination that seemed good (and without pinks and purples, in deference to the males ;-) ). I'm going to comment out the template eventually to show which colors go where so that it can be easily changed, and then we can change it with holidays or whatever else we feel like. ;-)
Do you think the text should be white instead of black? I wasn't sure if that would show up on the sidebar/header, but it just might. Up to you...
So the color isn't horrible? It's a miracle! ;-) (Or, you're just being nice. Also a possibility.)
I haven't fiddled with the fonts yet, so I will definitely make the sidebar fonts smaller.. and maybe the whole sidebar, once I change the margins. I'm trying to minimize the need for scrolling by keeping posts/comments large.
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