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Posted: 2/14/2013 7:51:10 PM EDT

if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

Posted: 2/14/2013 7:55:00 PM EDT

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

can you use it in a sentence please?

Posted: 2/14/2013 7:56:03 PM EDT

[#2]

Axe me another time.

Posted: 2/14/2013 7:56:49 PM EDT

[#3]

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

That is also true of most Southern dialects, regardless of the speaker's race. The preceding vowel is pronounced as though there were a terminal "R," but the terminal "R" is unpronounced. "Ebonics" has its origins in Southern English.

Posted: 2/14/2013 7:57:00 PM EDT

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

obviously it's racist if you pronounce the "r"

Posted: 2/14/2013 7:59:47 PM EDT

[#5]

Pursing your lips to make the R sound is too much work, and well...

Posted: 2/14/2013 9:39:40 PM EDT

[#6]

It is to make up for the extra vowels that the Japanese add to the ends of words.

What I would like to know is why the words "asleep" or "sleeping" do not seem to exist in the urban lexicon. It is always, simply, "sleep".

Q: Where Ja'Marcus?
A: Oh, he sleep.

Q: Where you wuz?
A: I wuz sleep.

Q: What happened?
A: We wuz sleep when dey jus start shootin.

Posted: 2/14/2013 9:49:54 PM EDT

[#7]

Ebonics answer:

Racist cracker question!!

Posted: 2/14/2013 9:52:26 PM EDT

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It is to make up for the extra vowels that the Japanese add to the ends of words.

What I would like to know is why the words "asleep" or "sleeping" do not seem to exist in the urban lexicon. It is always, simply, "sleep".

Q: Where Ja'Marcus?

A: Oh, he sleep.

Q: Where you wuz?

A: I wuz sleep.

Q: What happened?

A: We wuz sleep when dey jus start shootin.

lack of education?

Posted: 2/14/2013 10:11:54 PM EDT

[#9]

Yo ah really don' know, but when ah gots ta use ebonix, ah use dis here site ta transmalate fo' me ya'll is mad stupid.

http://joel.net/EBONICS/Translator

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:15:04 AM EDT

[#10]

I hate when people pronounce the "th" at the end of words as an "f". As in "Tell me the truf." instead of "Tell me the truth." I fucking HATE that!

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:26:43 AM EDT

[#11]

I don't have any ideal.

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:29:19 AM EDT

[#12]

I don't think you're allowed to talk about this.

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:32:28 AM EDT

[#13]

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

Go to an urban center and use the "R" and Blade at 45! Video please and post!

IBTL

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:39:36 AM EDT

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Quoted:
if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

Go to an urban center and use the "R" and Blade at 45! Video please and post!

IBTL

Hell yeah!

Posted: 2/15/2013 4:46:50 AM EDT

[#15]

It's "Are-Rah."

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:01:52 AM EDT

[#16]

I don't know. Stand by while I ask my Dispatchers why they can't speak proper English when on the radio.

Ebonics Language Class should be taught in schools instead of Mexican.

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:30:46 AM EDT

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It's "Are-Rah."

Somebody stoled my VC Are-Rah. Had my bang-bang movie in it.

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:36:52 AM EDT

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

So you mean something like Cracka instead of Cracker?

"You wun cracka ass motherfucka"

I dont think this is strictly a Ebonics issue,

Look at how Mr Wu says Cocksucka.....

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:39:32 AM EDT

[#19]

thats just how southern people talk..

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:40:19 AM EDT

[#20]

Wait a minute.......how do you guys pronounce a word like "terror".

I say the "r" a little bit.

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:43:56 AM EDT

[#21]

I used to have to translate for my boss that I work part time for , they were from up north so the combo of southern and ebonics were to much for them .

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:45:30 AM EDT

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Wait a minute.......how do you guys pronounce a word like "terror".

I say the "r" a little bit.

Well when I was a kid, prior to a number of years of speech therapy, I pronounced all my r's like l's

So it would have been "Tellol"

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:47:53 AM EDT

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Quoted:
Wait a minute.......how do you guys pronounce a word like "terror".

I say the "r" a little bit.

Well when I was a kid, prior to a number of years of speech therapy, I pronounced all my r's like l's

So it would have been "Tellol"

DAMN!!

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:52:33 AM EDT

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Axe me another time.

I had a boss who would throw you out of his office when someone would speak like that.

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:55:53 AM EDT

[#25]

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I don't know. Stand by while I ask my Dispatchers why they can't speak proper English when on the radio.

Ebonics Language Class should be taught in schools instead of Mexican.

Nah. You're much more likely to work around Mexicans.

Posted: 2/15/2013 5:58:59 AM EDT

[#26]

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I don't think you're allowed to talk about this.

IBTL

Posted: 2/15/2013 6:17:22 AM EDT

[#27]

How bout them mass. guys with their butchered R's--As in lawer for law and Haavaad for Harvard-- hmmmmm?

Posted: 2/15/2013 6:18:57 AM EDT

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if a word ends in "r"...why is it uncool to pronounce the "r"? i have always wondered this...

Ain't nobody got time for that!

Posted: 2/15/2013 6:21:39 AM EDT

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How bout them mass. guys with their butchered R's--As in lawer for law and Haavaad for Harvard-- hmmmmm?

At least that's entertaining.

There's a difference between an accent, and someone who simply cannot speak English.

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