Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts

In addition to helping decipher their Lil Wayne albums, the Justice Department is seeking Ebonics experts to help monitor, translate and transcribe wire tapped conversations. The DEA wants to fill nine full time positions. From the article: "A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a 'DEA Sensitive' security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of 'telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media.'”

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Re:That's not the professional term

[Grishnakh]

So what's your solution to all this "unfairness"? Make everyone learn everyone else's dialect?

Life isn't fair. Get over it. Having dozens of separate dialects and languages in one nation is impractical and unworkable.

It's funny how dumb liberals are always saying people need to "communicate with" each other and "understand" each other. But now you're saying we should all be speaking different languages! Which is it?

If you want to spend all your waking moments learning dozens of languages and dialects, feel free. I'd rather do more productive things with my time than try to keep up with ever-changing slang dialects.

Re:That's not the professional term

[benedict]

Something tells me that Coward, above -- and it's quite apt in this case -- doesn't know any black people.