Now that Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, has given MSNBC's Piers Morgan a primer in Ebonics (see: Huffington Post Story), I am reminded of the School Board of Oakland, California's attempt to teach this same argot in its schools ... all those 17 years ago. Back then, damning the PC torpedoes, I created a listing of other languages that I thought that Oakland could tutor to its diversified student population. It was passed around the Internet ... for which I got little credit. Perhaps this time it will be different:
NEW LANGUAGES TO BE TAUGHT IN OAKLAND , CALIFORNIA
Afro-American Speak: Ebonics (“Ebony” + “Phonics”)
Irish-American Speak: Leprechaunics
Native-American Speak: Kimosabics
Italo-American Speak: Spumonics
(or Rigatonics)
Chinese-American Speak: Wontonics
Japanese-American Speak: Mama-sanics
Polish-American Speak: Kielbasanics
Jewish-American Speak: Zionics
Russian-American Speak: Rasputonics
Spanish-American Speak: Flanics
Scottish-American Speak: Tartanics
Eskimo-American Speak: Harpoonics
German-American Speak: Autobahnics
(or Teutonics)
French-American Speak: Cornichonics
(or Escargonics)
Oakland-School-Board Speak: Moronics
