The Way You Speak

I feel like this Ebonics debate is really important because many people see it as incorrect English, but to many people, it’s how they learned to speak. I like it that it was mentioned that you wouldn’t try to correct a Southern person’s accent, because it’s the way they learned to speak. When we talked about this type of issue in my literacy class, my teacher talked about how important it was to read books to children that relate to them, and have characters that talk like them. People speak differently with different accents, and slang all over the world, and you can’t tell them they’re wrong for the way they talk.

Laura Kalinowski Post #21