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The South Takes a Cue from Oakland



Everyone is familiar with the plan to teach Ebonics in such leftist enclaves as California and
Massachusetts. Ebonics, a neologism created by combining Ebony and phonics, is supposed
to be the language of the untermenschen, the urban underclass.

Here in the South, we have a similar movement, called Bubbonics! Created from mixing Bubba
and phonics, we too have an entirely separate language from English. Like Ebonics, Bubbonics
has a slightly different alphabet and different pr*nunciations from standard English. For
example, the English language includes the letter L although Bubbonics does not. Likewise,
vowel pr*nunciation in Bubbonics is different from English pr*nunciation.

Take, for example, the following sentences in English, and their translation into Bubbonics:

Can I help you?
Kin ah hip ewe?

Hi, I'm Don Fowler.
Hah, ahm Dahn Fah-wah.

The discerning English speaker quickly notices that Bubbonics has fewer vowel sounds than
English, and the primary vowel sound is ah. The letters A and E are generally replaced with
the sound of a short i.

For the advanced scholar, there are actually many interesting comparisons between Ebonics and
Bubbonics. Indeed, there have even been suggestions that Ebonics is actually a degraded form
of Bubbonics, which is itself a degraded form of English. Consider the following statement in
Bubbonics and their counterparts in Ebonics:

Ah axed ewe a quest-shun.
I axed you a question, sukka.

Ah be smaht.
I be smarts now.

Hooked ahn Bahbahnics wukks fuh me.
Hooked on 'bonics be wukking fo me.

If you're a native English speaker, and you can read the writing on the wall, then you know
that your native tongue is soon to be as dead as Latin, spoken only in weird rituals or taught
to kids in prep school.

And if you're a native English speaker and you CAN'T read the writing on the wall, it's
probably already in Bubbonics or Ebonics, and you're just that far behind.

Gracefully surrender the things of your youth. Clean air. Tuna. Taiwan. The English language.
And remember: Bilingual Education means teaching kids to be illiterate in two languages.

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