Examples of Ebonics in a Sentence
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The cussing example is a case, like the side-eye meme, where Black internet users identify with the vice president’s nod to Black culture, in this case through Ebonics.
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Raven Maragh-Lloyd, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
At an early age I was taught to speak very properly around white people and to only use Ebonics with Black people.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Since utterances were only weakly correlated with income and education then perhaps the shorter utterance lengths is a characteristic of their race – perhaps pointing towards the controversial language of Ebonics [26].
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2013
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Raven Maragh-Lloyd, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
At an early age I was taught to speak very properly around white people and to only use Ebonics with Black people.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Since utterances were only weakly correlated with income and education then perhaps the shorter utterance lengths is a characteristic of their race – perhaps pointing towards the controversial language of Ebonics [26].
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2013
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“Ebonics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ebonics. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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