(NOTE: This ISN'T intended to be a racist thread. Please bear with me.) Can somebody please give me a reasonable explanation as to why many Black folks say "axe" instead of "ask"? I've never quite figured that one out. For that matter, what is the origin of ebonics? Just curious.
Funny. With the SOTUA coming tonight, I'm reminded of what Reed recently said. I was curious as to how Obama climbed out from under that plague as to be able to speak so eloquently. Same for Michael Steele.
Neither were raised by lazy, ignorant parents who neglected their children's most basic educational needs?
Found this to be relatively interesting.... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni...le-not-so-say-ax-instead-ask-please-help.html
Why do southern people talk ignorant. I'm finna go somewhere..............see how that works. White people are now stupid.
When I lived in Atlanta, someone once told me they "might could" do something. Thought it was one of the neatest "contractions" of a sentence, while still making total sense to me.
I believe that this started actually on the west coast by Ice Cube. He used to say, "if y'all don't know, ya better axe somebody"...the word axe having a violent connotation to it.
Why did our ex-president pronounce it "nukular"? Why do most people leave off the "r" in February? Why does everybody in my family but me think a small stream is a "crick"? I'll tell you why. They're all fuckin' pinheads.
"Ask" used to be pronounced "aks" in Old English. Why certain dialects of American English use it now is a mystery as far as I know. "Ebonics" (think "Ebony" to figure out the origin of the name) is just a term that was invented because people were still using "Negro"/"Negroid" to describe what is today known as African American Vernacular English.
I have heard that the US south uses a lot of the Old English dialect. Perhaps they just are so formal and strict, that this is another example that has not gone away.
