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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (339698)	1/7/2003 4:58:37 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769669

Dang straight there is a message in it. I love the language, plain and simple. Blingo is pretty dang expressive and powerful stuff when in the hands of a skilled constipational artist. (grin) Would not DARE do it verbally for fear of accidentally making a fool of myself. But the written form can be powerful and humorous. I enjoy experimenting with it and trying to capture in written form the texture I have heard created verbally amongst some blacks. I have studied it for some time now and have discovered there are in fact many different dialects amongst blacks, with increasing numbers of them speaking versions of our so-called "standard" English. There really is no single black accent, contrary to what you've implied. Deep southern blingo, the blingo I speak here for the most part, is quite different from urban blingo (which I cannot duplicate well). And blacks in the west sound quite different from eastern blacks - just as white easterners differ from white westerners. Many Black Englishes are both terribly inefficient and remarkably efficient at the same dang time! My younger kids marked this as we recently watched the movie "Shrek" with subtitles turned on. They noted how the subtitles for the most part captured the broken English of the Donkey character and how this was absolutely necessary to transmit the color of the Donkey character to deaf people. It's dang beautiful maan. At one point the Donkey said to Shrek: You know what I like? Parfait. You evah met somebody say hey you want some parfait? No I don't want no parfait. Parfait delishus! The Donkey said it just like that and we all caught it perfectly, though we are Northerners. The Donkey quick created a conversation with two people and used the mock conversation to make and support an argument. He did this in one, nearly unbroken string of words, and yet we saw it all the very first time, all the texture, humor and color, with stunning clarity. Even the younger children saw it. Dass sum funny stuff and impressive too! As for the dang McClaughlin fokes. I don't give a dang what dey be tawkin' about Condie Rice. While dey be whining 'bout how dang disappointed dey is, a thousand dang black girls lookin' at her and makin' plans to be president!