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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. irnpover. ho ngofthwathdelep want seewani theom Th ished black kids achieve a bright u future in the United States, should o the best possible Est teach them ir lish Wage. That can be the :