William from NOLA wrote:Awesome. I worked at a grocery for a few years, I was pretty looney during that time :)
I work at Mcdonalds.. since i've worked there, i've gone nuts. and i think im turning black (Being the only white employee on my shift)... i acutally had to translate what one black guy said to a black girl in to real english (note: no racial slurs were made on purpose here, if you see it as one...)
translating ebonics gets tricky.
my mom and I were eating dinner recently and watching a TV show, I forget what. I think it was law and order, and the cops were interviewing some black suspect who was talking in hiphop ebonics, and I had to translate all of it for her and even I was iffy on some of it lol.
yeah i work overnight at Sam's in metairie, LA . . 17 guys stock the store, 2 are white including me . . . I keep an ebonics handbook in my back pocket!
JL Man wrote:yeah i work overnight at Sam's in metairie, LA . . 17 guys stock the store, 2 are white including me . . . I keep an ebonics handbook in my back pocket!
I used to work at Winn-Dixie on Vets in metairie. Ebonics is one thing, but then when they have a cajun accent as well, I honestly don't know how I understand them. It took me 2 months before I could understand one guy that worked with me. It was fun being in the breakroom holding a conversation with him when no one else in there could understand him. :)