Scary

[Robert Lawless]

You take what you can get and be happy about it.

At 03:02 PM 8/31/2007, Ronald Kephart wrote:
>Here's one of the questions from the pretest in my Intro to Anthro class:
>
>Many African Americans in the United States speak Ebonics, also called
>African American English. Ebonics is:
>Answers                                              Percent Answered
>a sign of linguistic deprivation.            40%
>a perfectly normal human language.     31.429%
>a sign of cognitive deficit.                       8.571%
>an indication of educational deficit.     20%
>
>Should we just be happy that nearly a third picked the "right" answer?
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>Ron