{"id":12875,"date":"2010-08-24T07:41:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12875"},"modified":"2010-08-24T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:37:13","slug":"its-a-langwizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12875","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Langwizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DEA is looking for Ebonics linguists<\/a><\/p>\n

According to one posting, the linguist’s duties would include “monitoring varying numbers of communications intercepts during any given shift” and then providing “reliable and accurate transcriptions.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I heard a morning radio guy scoffing about this. \u00a0“It’s not a language!”.<\/p>\n

Having taken the class, I can tell you the definition of “another language”. \u00a0To wit:<\/p>\n

If you can’t understand it, it’s a foreign language<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oh, technically it might be “cant” or “argot” – secret languages or agglomerations of jargon designed to keep outsiders out and insiders in the loop, like “thieves cant” or Cockney argot. \u00a0It might even be “dialect”, a regional or social variation of a language that might be impenetrable to the rest of the language’s speakers (like Schw\u00e4bisch is to Germans or highland Scots, or Cajun are to many English speakers).<\/p>\n

Still – if people are talking, and you can’t understand them, and understanding them is important, then it’s a language.<\/p>\n

But here’s where this is going to turn into a problem:<\/p>\n

An agency official, said there is nothing “racial” about the job, and described white rapper Eminem as “one of the best speakers of Ebonics there ever was.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so it will be considered a racial thing. and officialdom will crack down on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DEA is looking for Ebonics linguists According to one posting, the linguist’s duties would include “monitoring varying numbers of communications intercepts during any given shift” and then providing “reliable and accurate transcriptions.” I heard a morning radio guy scoffing about this. \u00a0“It’s not a language!”. Having taken the class, I can tell you the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12881,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions\/12881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}