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at the local ice rink. I think it's
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wonderful to share with their fa-
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My husband loves to ice skate
and to snow ski. He's a native Mi-
amian who became a skier at col-
lege in New England. This does
not leave me out completely.
When we take family ski trips, I'm
the one in the condo, making the
hot chocolate and reading happi-
ly while the others slide and
freeze. Experience has even
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ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
M
y friend Nina L. Dia-
mond is a free-lance
writer. Most of her work
involves medical writing,
and she has a new book coming
out called Purify Your Body: Nat-
ural Remedies for Detoxing From
50 Everyday Situations. It deals
with holistic, healthy things to do
for your own good.
Nina and I share several things.
We are both media types. We are
both owned by very dainty cats.
We're both Jewish. We both had
a very visceral reaction to Ebon-
ics, the idea of recognizing the id-
iomatic jargon of the black
community as an academic sec-
ond language. We disliked the con-
cept that any American's accent,
dialect or slang should be regard-
ed as a separate language. We
found the notion of Ebonies pa-
tronizing, divisive and destructive
to the very people it is meant to
assist.
I simply mouthed off my opin-
ion to Nina, but Nina — being
made of sterner stuff— wrote to
our big local daily newspaper,
which ran the unfunny half of her
letter. Therefore, I get to share the
funny half, in which she concludes
that if Ebonies — the academic
jargon for the internal language
of the black community — is a
"second" language in the acade-
mic sense, then there are a few
other second languages she could
suggest.
And then she does. Here 'tis,
verbatim:
Libertonics: Named for the
Statue of Liberty, this covers all
New York area dialects, and in-
cludes the cab driver who takes
his passengers to toity-toid and
toid streets, the politician who calls
his home New Yawk, and the mil-
lions who utter daily: Giese, dem,
and dose. Right, youse guys?
Gritsonics: Derived from grits,
the popular Southern corn mush,
this language covers all of the
many Southern U.S. dialects and
includes such escapes from Stan-
dard English as Hay, hour yall6
in?, I might could do that, and
Haa-yelp, instead of help.
(Having grown up in Georgia,
I could add a great deal to Nina:
Gritsonics. For instance, you could
have an atlas, listing such sped
is places as Yerp and such genet-
al locales as down yonder. As they
say back home, I'd go a fur pin
for that. In fact, I once had a de
bate about whether "a fur piece'
connotes a greater distance than
"down yonder."
Nina's last suggested second
language was:
Matzonics: Named in honorof
the matzoh ball, this applies to
anyone of Jewish heritage,
whether he or she ever lived a day
in "the old country" or not. Mat•
zones includes the ever-popular
lament..."You shot/id only know
from how I suffer," the standard
greeting, "So, nu?" and the now
fully Americanized, "Oy, vey."
It seems to me that by the time
Nina exhausts Yiddishisms, all of
Leo Rosten, and a cross sectionof
daily catch phrases, Matzonics
would be too much to tackle. I fight
against it all the time. For in.
stance, when a mom in our neigh-
borhood won't allow her children
to do something (such as play
street hockey in the actual street),
the kids' catch phrase is, "MY
mother doesn't let." Now that's
Matzonics. It's even cute. But it s i
dreadful English. And it isn't even
a little piece of a real second larv-
gug.
ae gag in my throat at the con-
cept of Ebonies isn't based on race,
ethnicity, gender or religion. My
civil rights bona fides are not at
stake here. My disgust is areac- of
tion to the further degradatIon to
a perfectly fine language and
gredaton.
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