Ever wondered just how big 14.4 Trillion dollars is? Most Americans just don’t understand. This new video series puts this in perspective using the example of our galaxy the Milky Way. Washington obviously does not get this either.
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So the next day they set off. Both are ambling along, taking rests and getting nowhere nearer to finishing. After a few hours a wise old man tells them to dismount and gives them some advice. After which the two sprint back to the horses, get on and gallop towards the finish line.
Assuming that the race rules were not changed – what advice did the old man give them?
A Packer fan was enjoying himself at the game in a packed Lambeau Field, until he noticed an empty seat down in front. He went down and asked the guy next to it if he knew whose seat it was.
The guy said, “Yes, that’s my wife’s seat. We have never missed a game since the Lombardi days, but now my wife is dead.”
The fan offered his sympathy and said it was really too bad he couldn’t find some relative to give the ticket to so they could enjoy the game together…
“Oh no,” the guy said, “they’re all at the funeral.”
Everyone is familiar with the plan to teach Ebonics in such leftist enclaves as California and Massachusetts.
“Ebonics,” a neologism created by combining “Ebony” and “phonics,” is supposed to be the language of the untermenschen, the urban underclass.
Here in the South, we have a similar movement, called “Bubbonics!”
Created from mixing “Bubba”and “phonics,” we too have an entirely separate language from English.
Like Ebonics, Bubbonics has a slightly different alphabet and different pronunciations from standard English.
For example, the English language includes the letter “L,” although Bubbonics does not.
Likewise, vowel pronunciation in Bubbonics is different from English pronunciation.
Take, for example, the following sentences in English, and their translation into Bubbonics:
Can I help you?
Kin ah hip ewe?
Hi, I’m Don Fowler.
Hah, ahm Dahn Fah-wah.
The discerning English speaker quickly notices that Bubbonics has fewer vowel sounds than English, and the primary vowel sound is “ah.” The letters A and E are generally replaced with the sound of a short i.
For the advanced scholar, there are actually many interesting comparisons between Ebonics and Bubbonics. Indeed, there have even been suggestions that Ebonics is actually a degraded form of Bubbonics, which is itself a degraded form of English.
Consider the following statement in Bubbonics and their counterparts in Ebonics:
Ah axed ewe a quest-shun.
I axed you a question, sukka.
Ah be smaht.
I be smarts now.
Hooked ahn Bahbahnics wukks fuh me.
Hooked on ‘bonics be wukking fo me.
If you’re a native English speaker, and you can read the writing on the wall, then you know that your native tongue is soon to be as dead as Latin, spoken only in weird rituals or taught to kids in prep school.
And if you’re a native English speaker and you CAN’T read the writing on the wall, it’s probably already in Bubbonics or Ebonics, and you’re just that far behind.
Gracefully surrender the things of your youth. Clean air. Tuna. Taiwan. The English language. And remember: Bilingual Education means teaching kids to be illiterate in two languages.
