Matteakline

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Matteakline, good luck, and have fun. --Hoary (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Ebonics

In this edit, I removed material partly added by you. I did so because the material was only about "Ebonics" so far as "Ebonics" means what linguists far more often term AAVE, and thus may belongs in an article on AAVE but not one about the term "Ebonics" -- the latter is intended as a short, demystifying article on an intellectual blind alley and terminology, and not as an article about a lect or its implications for or use in education. (See its hatnote: "For African American U.S. English that is distinct from Standard American English, see African American Vernacular English.")

You're welcome to retrieve the material from here and to see how it may be usable in other articles. -- Hoary (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)