[Ads-l] Dialect clash: The Steve Wilkos Show

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 2 09:15:20 UTC 2016


Steve and a thirty-ish black woman are talking.

She: "... but _we_ are taking care of the baby."

He : "So, _you_ are taking care of the baby."

She : No, Steve. _WE_ are taking taking care of the baby."


If you don't get it it, then you have no business pretending to be a
dialectologist! 😜

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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