tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post7315659789547400361..comments2023-10-31T09:46:47.703-04:00Comments on The Desultory Life & Times of a Public Citizen: Fractured English gone MainstreamCitizen Ojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001825524756033450noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-34404386979199497042009-03-31T23:34:00.000-04:002009-03-31T23:34:00.000-04:00Ugly - Really on the news!!! ESPN doesn't count, ...Ugly - Really on the news!!! ESPN doesn't count, we know it's full of Ebonics<BR/><BR/>Uppity - Newspapers and Journalists... It might be a sign... Being in the South is good for you. The weather... the women... ; )Citizen Ojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001825524756033450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-16274516516317386992009-03-31T15:54:00.000-04:002009-03-31T15:54:00.000-04:00Yet another post about newspapers and journalists....Yet another post about newspapers and journalists...<BR/><BR/>Hmmmm...<BR/><BR/>But I've always wondered that myself. I've heard a lot of athletes on the evening news and on ESPN and I just cringe. Now I know I sometimes have my own colloquialisms, and every once in a while I use them in places that I don't need to, but when I have to get up and give presentations and everything, you would never know how I talk around my friends.<BR/><BR/>I think they need to go ahead and give a direct quote, maybe it'll shame the jokers into speaking properly. Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, but athletes should be aware that they need to shake the moniker of being the "dumb jock." And if they black, being nothing more than a "dumb nigger who can throw a football."<BR/><BR/>Although I have developed a southern twang to my voice, I've been Down South ENTIRELY too long.the uppity negrohttp://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-76358119192184573952009-03-30T22:35:00.000-04:002009-03-30T22:35:00.000-04:00That's not as bad as the newscasters here who spea...That's not as bad as the newscasters here who speak in Ebonics...WHILE PRESENTING THE NEWS!<BR/>And then I hear kids say, "Well the news lady said it".uglyblackjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404995571276457138noreply@blogger.com