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It may be raising some eyebrows, but the Drug Enforcement Administration insists it needs to hire at least nine people fluent in Ebonics.
The DEA's Atlanta office has been looking for Ebonics "linguists" since at least May, when job vacancies were posted online. According to one posting, the linguist's duties would include "monitoring varying numbers of communications intercepts during any given shift" and then providing "reliable and accurate transcriptions." An agency official, said there is nothing "racial" about the job, and described white rapper Eminem as "one of the best speakers of Ebonics there ever was." "There are words that people use that I never used," the official said. "It's a dialect that certain people use, and we see a need for it." The DEA also sees a need for linguists who speak scores of other languages and dialects, including Jamaican Patois. The DEA is looking to hiring such linguists too. As for why the DEA office is looking for nine Ebonics speakers -- on a contract basis -- the official said that would cover teams of three working three different shifts. foxnews.com about time they wizened up...they gotta understand what they are listening to. |
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I'm sure that would be a 'workplace made in heaven' ... fo' shizzle ma nizzle ...
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Barbara Billingsley speaks fluent Jive!
 Better known as June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver. Wonder how long it's been since Ward was hard on the Beaver? 
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Edited by
Peccy
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Tue 08/24/10 09:13 AM
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I think she said he was hard on the Beaver last night......lol
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Barbara Billingsley speaks fluent Jive! Better known as June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver. Wonder how long it's been since Ward was hard on the Beaver? Thats a hilrious movie |
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I'm just waiting for the first Progressive, Liberal, Drug Addict to come in and say it's racist, hateful and will put the Dope Dealer at an unfair disadvantage.
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It may be raising some eyebrows, but the Drug Enforcement Administration insists it needs to hire at least nine people fluent in Ebonics. The DEA's Atlanta office has been looking for Ebonics "linguists" since at least May, when job vacancies were posted online. According to one posting, the linguist's duties would include "monitoring varying numbers of communications intercepts during any given shift" and then providing "reliable and accurate transcriptions." An agency official, said there is nothing "racial" about the job, and described white rapper Eminem as "one of the best speakers of Ebonics there ever was." "There are words that people use that I never used," the official said. "It's a dialect that certain people use, and we see a need for it." The DEA also sees a need for linguists who speak scores of other languages and dialects, including Jamaican Patois. The DEA is looking to hiring such linguists too. As for why the DEA office is looking for nine Ebonics speakers -- on a contract basis -- the official said that would cover teams of three working three different shifts. foxnews.com about time they wizened up...they gotta understand what they are listening to. great that jobs are created,, kind of stupid to think one needs to specialize in english dialects though,,, I can understand country , I just have to try to listen harder the slang they call 'ebonics' is no different really |
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I forget who keeps claiming that profiling was racist, bigoted and against the Law.
I know Hussein whined about it when it was about Illegals. |
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