Dat's Fine

I feel that in order to speak Ebonics or "talk ghetto", one must be able to pronounce black people's names correctly.

I had a substitute last week that fit the white girl that wants to be black description only she was like 35. She spoke normally until she started talking directly to black kids in my class. Then she turned into Shaniqua. It was hilarious.

She could NOT however pronounce any of their names. She would apologize and try to compensate her mistakes by saying, "Some people juss say dey names different and dasss fine," EVERY time she said someone's name incorrectly. She did that about 10 times. Not kidding.

Then my best friend's mom, before I even told anyone this story, did something similar.

She was talking about stealing a picture of me that I posted online, only her normal mom voice was out the window and she said, "Put ya pictcha up an' I'ma take it, dass all." It was hilarious.

Needless to say, the bestie and I applied these sentence structures to every possible situation ALL day long.

Example:

"That purse is ugly."

"Some people like dey purses like dat. An' dasss fine."

*insert uncontrollable laughter here*

Its fun. Try it.