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"Lookin' back in front of me in the mirror's a grin,
through eyes of love I see I'm really lookin' at a friend
We've all had our problems that's the way life is,
my heart goes out to others who are there to make amends".
Lookie here. I can dig grease 'n chompin' on some buns and draggin' through the garden.
"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
Convert from English to Jive Speak. Jive talk ( or Harlem Jive) was the distinctive slang which developed in Harlem, NY and subsequently adopted more widely in US. Its use peaked in 1940s. Our translator learned to speak jive. So yo' gate, get high translatin'.
"Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey
"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
You guys make all the fun you want about ebonics and section eight speak and whatever, but there is a shitload of white folks out there.....mostly in the southeastern states....that mangle the language just as much.
I have relatives in Alabama and Louisiana and speak from experience.
In 2013 when the Power Tour went from Arlington to Texarkana a white kid came up to me to talk cars and I'll be damned if I understood 1/2 of what he was saying.
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