geechee

[Wilson Gray]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Educational CyberPlayGround wrote:

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> Some of the resources below may be of interest.
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> Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [is/was] a Gullah speaker.
> (12/14/00) issue of the New York Times in Thomas's own words
> "When I was 16, I was sitting as the only black kid in my class, and I
> had
> grown up speaking a kind of a dialect. It's called Geechee.

it's too bad that you had to bring up the man once lampooned -
correctly, in my opinion - as "The yard-jockey of the Republican
right." It's spoiled my whole day.;-) What a bringdown! Starting from
the age of *13*, I, too, "was sitting as the only black kid in my
class, and I had grown up speaking a kind of dialect." Additionally, I
was also only one of seven blacks among 800 students. I'll stop here.
As the blues song puts it, "Don't start me to talkin', 'cause I'll tell
everything I know. I'll talk about [him] low-down an' dirty an' every
word I say will be true."

-Wilson Gray

> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/GullahGeechee.html
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> "Gullah, a word derived perhaps from Angola, draws to some degree on
> amix
> of West African languages like Ewe, Ibo and Yoruba."
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> African Languages
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> World Creoles
> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/worldcreoles.html
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> American Virgin Islands Creole
> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/vi.html
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> best,
> Karen Ellis
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