Do You Speak Ebonics? If So, the DEA Wants to Hire You

• I wouldn't call people who can speak proper English "snobs", I would call them "educated" or "intelligent" or "strong-minded" or ...... the list goes on. Ebonics is a plague upon  intellect. Laziness mixed with a low IQ and a cup of failure.

• Naah, I've never heard of that site before, but thanks for the tip, Oppos3d.

• Pete, Have you also seen the website www.blueservo.net? It is a website where you can actively watch live cameras of the Border and report intrusions to the U.S. Border Patrol. Want to be in the border patrol? do it from your couch.

• ..really?...It has to be some serious, country grammar code that these white boys can't decipher, it can't be just ebonics. That (fill in the blank) is the joint= that's awesome....on point/bangin= really good....what's good/what's crackin= how are you....hit a lick=get money, stacking paper=save money, mob deep= a lot of people...If these southern folks are speaking in slang that is seriously fucking up investigators, it's most likely NOT really ebonics, but "cop deterrent code". "you know what's so funny about skeet skeet? White people don't know what it means yet" Dave Chapelle

• Although this reminds me of the Christopher 'Moot' Poole testimony before a Grand Jury two weeks ago where he was called to explain such terms as "OP", "lurker", "CAPS", "new fag", "b-tard", "troll", "404", "peeps", "Rickroll" and "Goatse". The Grand Jury spent like 30 minutes trying to get their head around what a "Rickroll" was...and Moot nimbly avoided having to explain "Goatse" any more than he did. I guess no matter where you go, old people just aren't hip enough to keep up with language.

• Oh bluepinto! You beat me to it! ;) Thumbs up! Aldough de JIBE turkey in de picture gots de dumbs waaay down fum de DEA as deir Ebonics Translator, ah' bet he'll gots betta' luck when de DEA finally determines dey need t'have some Klingon Translator.

• bluepinto LOL!!! I love that movie. *swig*

• "Excuse me, stewardess? I speak jive."

• This just shows the wonders of America :)

• omg...i thought the article was funny, but the comments from everyone here are even funnier! i need an ebonics translator so i can understand the phone messages people leave on my answering machine. a lot of people down here in NC just don't know how to speak proper english! (btw, consider me one of the "english snobs" who doesn't think ebonics is a real language...it is lazy-ass slang used by ignorant people.) @ angry grandma...good for you for teaching your grandson right! i also don't understand why people wear their pants way down on their butts...pants are supposed to cover you...they aren't just an accessory to be worn to accentuate your underoos! oh, and i HAVE seen video of some dumb criminal tripping and falling while the cops were chasing him because his pants were too low and kept falling down on him. also, i just read an article today about a judge in louisiana holding a woman in his courtroom in contempt of court and sentenced her to something like 9 days in jail for wearing her shorts halfway down her butt...and she wasn't even there for her own court hearing, she was there for her brother! hahahaha...JACK A$$!!!

• now where's my chocolate...

• *pouts in Spanish* *more coffee*

• ooohhh...yeah he is somethin' ain't he?

• Come on Patty, you know you think he's Superfly!

• AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!...blinkblinkblink...AAAAAHHHH!!!!

• just about barfed at the sight of that picture. ugh!!! as for Minnesota. I have yet to find a spot here in this state that the folks speak nothing but swedish. we do not even NORMALLY have a Swedish accent. only time you hear it. it is due to someone making fun of the muppet swedish chef. though we do have our own form of english here that has words that you might not find elsewhere. unless they are transported Minnesotans.

• Haters gonna hate.

• Personally I find the "ThugLife" Tattoo rather sexy.

• Hey PANTS TO THE GROUND!!! Love that song!! I dont know why they have to wear them like that. What exactly is the purpose? To be able to get to the bathroom faster? That would be the only reason i could see. Because, believe me, this dude would NEVER be any persons idea of a booty call!!!!

• @angry grandma He is a sight for first thing in the morning. LOL! I did see one of those pants to the ground fall. He was trying to hold the pants up while running for a bus,tripped on one of the pants legs and hit the ground like a ton of bricks. Everyone at that bus stop was laughing and pointing at him. Good thing his underwear was clean because you could see everything!

• Ok this picture just made me lose my breakfast. Thank you Pete. I don't need the calories anyways! OMG. Dude needs to get to a gym or better yet... Grow the F*ck up! Everytime i see a male with pants down to his whatever, i want to walk up to them, slap them upside the back of the head, grab the belt and jerk the pants up where they belong. Then i want to tighten the belt so that the jerk looks like a real person! Oldest grandson tried this with me once. ONCE. Dont do it anymore. Especially after i told him he looked like he had a load in his britches, (which i had to explain what britches are!) There is a reason, pants are made the way they are. And it isn't to be worn around their thights or knees. Can't wait for the day to see some jerk trying to run or walk fast and the pants come down and they trip. I will most likely end up in the hospital. I'll be laughing so hard i will ether wreck my car (if driving) or have a heart attack from laughing so hard!!!!! Fricking Goobers!!!

• @Saint_Dismas Man boobs!LOL! Damn that made me look again and now I am creeped out! LOL! I think you dead right in your assessment of his sad little life. Mommy doesn't let him drive the car very often so I'm probably safe.

• man boobs diamond girl.

• LOL Diamondgirl...careful...or he might pull a drive-by in moms car. (if he's not still grounded for borrowing it without asking the last time.) In all seriousness though I can see the need for the Ebonics fluent agents now, and it is a constantly progressing language...in an Orwellian sense it could be considered the NewSpeak of Ebonies...or something similar. The guy in this picture probably has a low self esteem and few real friends or committed companions in his life, so the image of rebel-gang-badass is his way of feeling important, or expressing his pent up youthful angst. He's the guy other people talk into doing stupid shit no one else would do basically, and he does it knowing that its stupid, but also knowing that he will get at least a small amount of mocking acceptance from the pseudo-peers he looks up to.

• @CT What are moobs?

• got- gots ignorant - ignent milk- murk shrimp- skrimp job- bad 4 letter wurd (cant count either) jewelry- jurey ( as in "need assistance at the jurey counter") ask- ax ( let me ax u somum) tip- where somum is happin ( what be up in dis tip) Just some of the ones i can remember. From a 42 year old white guy ( cracker, wonder bread, flower) that hears this shiznet all day. :-)

• @diamondgirl? - so true, do you think many thugs have posters in their bedrooms? His moobs are creeping me out.

• OMG! That picture of the chunk with the thug life tat is too funny. You just know he still lives with his mother-probably in the basement. LOL!

• Ya'll haz got ta be kiddin me. What uh mad stupit freakin idea. what 'chew thinking man? You so ignorant. It's called the internet. It's free and you don't have to pay any benefits and there are Ebonics translators all over the place.

• Bahahahahahahaha....Cheryl, you crack me up, yo.

• Okay, "contraband lutefisk" made me laff hard.

• Dats whack - Yo. You be all up in my gril tryn to to bust a cap. Don't be trippin' Crackaz cause dis is Off da hook! Wurd.

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