“If You Challenge Me First, I’ll Offer Your Family An Overnight Hot Spring Tour!” - Atlantis When

Lamp

>No comment,  hang white suburbanites.

An article in the Atlantic by John McWhorter on courts misunderstanding African American English. Excerpt: 

In 2007, a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissent claimed that when a black woman said, in terror, “He finna shoot me,” she may have been referring to something in the past, when in fact “finna” refers to the immediate future. “Why don’t you just give me a lawyer, dog?” Warren Demesme asked the police when accused of sexual assault in 2017. The statements one makes to law enforcement after requesting a lawyer are inadmissible—but Demesme’s rights were ignored because, it was argued, he’d requested a “lawyer dog,” not an actual attorney. […]

People who will spend their careers transcribing phrases such as “He come tell ’bout I’m gonna take the TV”—or even “Dat table, dey close?”—ought to learn the basics of how Black English works. They would need mastery of only about 25 grammatical traits, which are universal in Black English nationwide, despite local differences. For example, be, when used in a sentence such as She be there on Sunday, refers to something regular and habitual, as in “every Sunday,” and is not simply a randomly unconjugated be. Another example: We had went to the store then I got a text conveys that the person was still in the store when the text came, not that it came after he left.

Read the whole article

Previously: John Rickford on dialect discrimination in the courtroom. 

So all the Poe ghosts are caught in the Earth’s now mostly artificially saturated EM field is that the situation still?

“This poem doesn’t rhyme.”

Dude about to make haikus:

“Oh you haven’t heard?”

još jedan uzeti

「東方アレンジVocal」SOUND HOLIC - The Party We Have Never Seen  

⋊ Ɔ O Ɔ ƎH⊥ NI NIᴚZ∀N ⋊ƆI⋊ ᗡN∀ ⋊ƆOᴚ ⋊ƆO˥ ⊥,NOᗡ ∩O⅄ ℲI ⋊ O H Ǝ ⊥ O ⋊

And I'm number eight today again.