…makes sense

First!

Is it really that f*cked up? With all the new made up words coming out everyday, I don’t know how most of us can keep up, lol. So what, they need an interpreter, southern slang is like a another language so why wouldn’t the DEA need someone on staff that can translate. The whole thing is funny though.

WOW!!! Does this surprise you…just another way white people label people of color!!!

lol I want to apply for the job!

Hey, i’m black and even I can’t decipher most of what these young ns’ be talkin’ bout…In fact, this reminds me of the first season of THE WIRE.

I would love this job!

LOWFINEST U ARE A FOOL.

Speak normal english and this wont happen.

But why would you be talking like that at an office? Leave that stuff in the streets. You can use google or ask somebody they know what those kids be saying it’s not that hard to find out.

Ebonics is not that deep it’s not like it’s English Creole.

A waste of money. Give them a copy of “urban dictionary”

I always said white folks weren’t very smart people.And this garbage proves my point.This has got to be one of the dumbest this i’ve ever heard in life.

I’d be good at that job. Although I save the ebonics strictly for @ home use. Lmao!

Hey I’m all for it this gives 9 black people jobs during a recession so that’s a good thing.

Shame Ebonics should never be a language. I know everyone has a dialect, I’m South American and we have our own dialect but I damn well know how to speak proper English. Its a shame when some blacks only speak ebonics as if its a black way of life. Wish a black person the best in that job but if they are looking for an educated blk person who knows all that ebony garbage good luck. This should be a wake up call cause the chit I hear black people say and poor kids repeat it cause they don’t know better.

imma side with the feds on this one. racist or not this is a good idea.

see what happens when you dont go to school?

half the time i dont know what mofo be sayin

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It’s for more slang they can mimick,exploit and get paid off of from black culture.

“Ebonics” is not difficult to understand.

I swear white people are getting a little ridiculous. smfh

Just another subliminal racist act of white people.

First off lmao…ok now that I’ve done that, I’m going to slide with the Feds as well. I don’t know if I would have singled it out as Ebonics, rather, its an every changing “vocabulary” AKA street slang. I think, though hilarious is a legitimate requirement– I know I have been like “now wth did he/she just say”? Lol

<—-Shaking my damn head!!..really!! But I guess if you'll call your own self a bytch you'd see a problem with it and find a way to blame white folks….I understand its slang unfortunately a lot of the youth use it in every sphere of their life like its the thing to do and the heavier on the Dat's & Dem's the better as if its a cute or a way of reppin Atlanta…..

With all due respect, darlin’, but you’ve just over-simplified the DEA’s current delimma…Now you know, and I know that today’s urban slang + its’ many varied regional accents, colloquialisms and quirks goes way beyond “YO HOMIE I’M GONNA BE POSTED UP ON THE BLOCK LATER ON”

If you visit the DEA’s career website which takes you to the USAJOBS site where you apply for any fed’l job, there’s no evidence of these jobs.

Why don’t you all go and do a little research on the history of “ebonics” before you type your ignorant rants.

First, @ Mels, you stated that you know “proper English”, well can you explain to me what your definition of that is “cause” because and cause have two different definitions in “proper English”, yet you use them interchangeble. I’m sorry, is that a part of your dialect ?

@Marquis de Sade, you can’t understand what these “ns’ be talkin about” yet if your writing skills are a clue to your verbal skills you’re right on track with those young n’s (notice my placement of the ‘ compared to yours for starters).

Furthermore, to about 90 % of the other posters on this topic, you all obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. Ebonics is NOT slang. Go take a few lingustics courses before you deem yourself experts in language. The American English that you all speak IS NOT “PROPER ENGLISH”. In fact, there’s actually no such thing as correct or incorrect language.

One one hand this sh!t is funny, and on the other hand it’s not. I dont know if this is sader than blk folks speaking on tv and at the bottom it’s in subtitle. Oh well, I guess somebody has a job.

Uhhh, I purposely write in slang for effect and shyts n’ giggles…Trust, in the real world, I can speak fluent JOB INTERVIEW.

Oops, I ment *on*

Oh, btw, you forgot to place a comma (,) in between “SKILLS” and “YOU’RE”…But i’m sure with your SUPERIOR knowledge in grammar, punctuation, and linguistics, this was just an oversight caused by your overzealousness to prove to me and everyone else your prowess regardin’ DA’ KING’S ENGLISH.

@507_diva: you’re so funny. I’m disseminating this piece of information right now! Cuz I foe sho need ta be gettin dat guap lmao

now hiring 9 snitches

I speak hood…does that mean I get a job?

@VOICE OF REASON

WELL SAID!!!

EBONICALLY SPEAKING: OOPS DAR IT IS!!

i nominate glok for the job!

Uhhh, was Voice of Reason’s post/comment, well said? – Hell, by his/her’s own admission: “In fact, there’s actually no such thing as correct or incorrect language.” – And yet, he/she felt compelled to criticize everyones’ “LACK OF “PROPER” english language usage?

HIS/HER’S POST IS ONE BIG CONTRADICTION!

Sabrina.. I agree, its another form of white folks trying to de-humanize black folks.. i hear white folks copying off of blacks and saying the same crap so maybe we need a web-cam to see whether its white , black or hispanic saying the sh-t!!

@Miss me with the bullsheet

I think I understood you this time. But are you serious? Your posts are usually filled with lots of ebonics, and when it’s not, it’s still hard to decipher the points you are trying to get across because you usually omit commas, and periods, thus leaving your comments with a host of run-on sentences. In other words, “I don’t understand wut you be saying most of the time, ya smell me?”

I speak hood.. but Mr. Manager notice i can speak proper English for the the job interview just dont throw my appl away because my name sounds too ghetto. . @ Rose ended up being the best worker you have here and have been here for 4 years with no absences..only took my sick days and didnt take all of them! So dont judge me by a slip of a ebonics word… you have said “aint ” too Mr. Manager!!! LOL!!

I’m not saying ebonics should never be used. But if it’s apart of your lexicon, then don’t come on here talking to people like ebonics shouldn’t be used in a sentence, when your own posts usually exist of “dem, dats, other slang, and a lack of punctation.” Don’t be hypocritical now.

Ya’ gotta learn to navigate around their filterin’ software. It’s a painful exercise in trial n’ error, but once you get the gist, it becomes second nature.

this so-called “ebonics” is a dialect of black american culture, every cultre and sub-culture has their own ways of speaking slang, the problem is when blacks don’t learn how to speak regular english, then you become marginalized as ignorant and ghetto. this is a problem of our own doing and can easily be corrected thru education in the home and in school.

federal ebonics linguists = snitches

Voice, I said this to somebody else and I’m gonna say the same to you…your level of expectation is too high for this site. This is a gossip site; the “news” stories are loosely put together, and the conversations are loose, as well (just as it should be for this type of site). People come here to hang loose, not be critiqued on every word they type. You’re a$$uming people don’t know linguistics based on what you see here, and I am saying there are folks on here, like myself, who intentionally use slang, because it’s a more relaxed venue. If you’re looking for the correct spelling, grammar, or “proper english,” there are other, more tightly wound sites, like CNN, where the level of expectation may be higher. That’s all.

@white people

they spend too much time trying to figure us out and what we up to 24/7

they have waayyyyyyyy too much time on there hands

do they feel threatened???

hey rose