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HUMOR: Ebonics Quiz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Tue Jan 28 10:59:31 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:52:59 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:07:21 EST
From: "Mark A. Herschberg" <hershey@MIT.EDU>
From: jda_plp@juno.com (Joshua D Abrams)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:43:43 EST
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OK, the trick to this one is to read it like you sent it to that jive
translator :)
Leroy is 18 and in the 8th grade. Homework is hard for him.
One day, Leroy got an easy homework assignment. All he had to do was
put each of the following vocabulary words in a sentence. Here's
what he wrote. (Ebonic style)
1. HOTEL - I gave my girlfriend da crabs and the HOTEL everybody.
2. RECTUM - I had two Cadillacs, but my ol' lady RECTUM both.
3. DISAPPOINTMENT - My parole officer tol me if I miss DISAPPOINTMENT
4. FORECLOSE - If I pay alimony this month, I'll have no money FORECLOSE.
5. CATACOMB - Don King was at the fight the other night, Man,
somebody give that CATACOMB.
6. PENIS - I went to da doctor and he handed me a cup and said PENIS.
7. ISRAEL - Alonso tried to sell me a Rolex, I said Man, that looks
fake. He said, No, ISRAEL.
8. UNDERMINE - There is a fine lookin' hoe livin' in the apartment UNDERMINE.
9. TRIPOLI - I was gonna buy my old lady a bra but I couldn't
find no TRIPOLI.
10. STAIN - My mother-in-law axed if I was STAIN for dinner again.
11. SELDOM - My cousin gave me two tickets to the Knicks game, so I SELDOM.
12. ODYSSEY - I told my bro, you ODYSSEY the tits on this hoe.
13. HORDE - My sister got into trouble because she HORDE around in school.
14. INCOME - I just got in bed wit dis hoe and INCOME my wife.
15. HONOR - At the rape trial, the judge axed my buddy, who be HONOR first?
16. FORTIFY - I axed da hoe how much? And she say FORTIFY.
