Ebonics is technically the phonic spelling of words spoken by black people. The term itself actually just means Black English.The Ebonics dictionary was created to identify and define terms used in the black community that may be widespread. The words are written as phonically sounded by black people, but there's a problem with that. Many terms in that dictionary are based generally on were based on one region's locale. This means the EBonic Dictionary didn't reflect the terminology as used by most of black America.
In my opinion, Nobody speaks ebonics because it is not a language. Our accents influence the way we pronounce words, not how we spell them. Slang words and foreign dialects have always had an influence on how All Americans speak, not just black people Yet somehow, Ebonics is defined as Black English. Though it is a lexicon, it's not a dialect. We do not speak it.
"Netspeak" is terms made up of words, Abbreviations symbols/dingbats / Smilies / Emotion Icons (Emoticons / Emojis) created for internet communication. It's basically the same thing. A written lexicon. Because of it, new words were created out of using old words that are redefining old words in giving all the definitions to new words. It's just how we communicate online. Not everybody understands it.
A Great example is a word like Ginormous. It is a compound word which Means both gigantic and enormous. Both words basically mean Large. We don't consider that Ebonics because it's not a word black people invented. Today That word is used in what people call proper English. Another example is the word Karma. It's not an English word, but it is defined in standard English dictionaries. The reason is that English is an ever-evolving language. It's amazing that Americans can Incorporate terms from another Language into ours, yet Ebonics only exist because somebody couldn't understand how black people communicate.
In the United Kingdom, there are regions where people don't speak The Queen's English. People from Liverpool do not speak the same exact English dialect as people in Blackpool. Their accents are also different, but you'll never hear about them downing each other for the way they speak. American Standard English has a whole different set of words than those people, yet somehow the word Ebonics means black English.
I have rejected that term since the time in Elementary School, 1993 4th grade to be exact. There was a point where we were given an Ebonics course of study. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen. It was like reading a load of misspelled words only to mispronounce them as we read them because we don't speak nor write that way here in New Orleans. I'm just saying.
There's so much more I could say about it, But I'll leave it at this for now.
- Book
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