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DEA Seeking Ebonics Translators

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Sheeeeeeeeeeiiiit

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/justice-department-seeks-ebonics-experts

AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”

The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
 
#4
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It's not likely they will be satisfied with what they get. Ebonics in Atlanta is different from ebonics in Chicago, particularly with those in the drug trade. Terms and phrases used here would likely not be understood by a drug dealer in LA.
 
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9 major city focuses perhaps then?<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Phylodog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's not likely they will be satisfied with what they get. Ebonics in Atlanta is different from ebonics in Chicago, particularly with those in the drug trade. Terms and phrases used here would likely not be understood by a drug dealer in LA.</div></div>
 
#9
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I wonder if I score 50% on the exam if I can force them to give to me the job b/c I am white, and not giving it to me would be discrimination?

Conceptually I should be able to lie about having a Masters in Ebonics from East St. Louis University as it is a matter of my first amendment rights...



Good luck
 
#10
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It won't work. They will just come up with new slang so that they stay one step ahead. Making up new slang is easy, cheap, and simple. Paying someone to decode slang is expensive. The ideal slang translator would probably be 16 years old.
 
#11
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shot In The Dark</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's clear we are circling the drain... </div></div>

That writing's been on the wall for years
 
#15
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: shankster</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am a 'hood certified O.G. Ebonicologist. I'd be krunkin' dat shit and all up in that gubment nookie. </div></div>

Thit MO FO you be brangin dem BEEG Booty Ho's Roun Da Crib an Shit,dat Ho dun et all mah fright Chicken an mah las 40 ouncer.
 
#16
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fritz24</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Need June Cleaver:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJDvI3gUO8 </div></div>

This?

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#18
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My guess is if their having a issue with that, Uncle is in why over his head in other areas. I mean, if he's having trouble with understanding true American made folks,... I now understand why we are so short sighted all the time, in others tasks.
 
#19
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Here are a couple DEA new hires.

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#22
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afamsniper.png


Maybe they can get a TDY pinch-hitter?
 
#23
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fritz24</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Need June Cleaver:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJDvI3gUO8 </div></div>

This?

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</div></div>
LMAO
 
#24
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mexican match</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They use to have one on the payroll but he shot himself in the foot. </div></div>

You owe me a new keyboard. LMFAO.
 
#26
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427Cobra</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's sad that a slang was legitimized by naming it Ebonics </div></div>

Not that it sounds that manly, but I'm a linguist by training, among other things, and Ebonics is <span style="font-style: italic">not</span> a slang, no matter how much that may displease you. Instead, it <span style="font-style: italic">is</span> a <span style="font-style: italic">dialect</span> of English, just as much as the English that the rich, irritating guy on <span style="font-style: italic">Gilligan's Island,</span> (Thurston Howell III) spoke is another dialect of English, his humorously referred to as "Larchmont Lockjaw."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language
 
#28
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Switchblade</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's JIBberish and spoken by Jibs, a slang term from NC used to describe anyone speaking jibberish </div></div>

On that note what is a "Jig" In my last job (engineering firm) a bunch of guys would refer to people as "Jigs" but I've never heard that before and never took part in their conversations so I don't know the context...?? same as A "Jib" I assume ?????
 
#31
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Maser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd take the job just for the entertainment aspect. </div></div>

You'd take it just to get close to some roughneck bad boys, sugar.
 
#32
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The Knowledge Skills and Abilities test, mandatory for all federal government positions, does not specify knowledge of grammar other than English grammar. I am concerned that this may result in a group of poorly qualified applicants. For example, "I sleep" is not the present tense, it is the past tense. "I be sleep" is not the present tense, either, it is the future conditional. Errors of this kind would be unacceptable in the analysis of a transcript.
 
#33
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Graham</div><div class="ubbcode-body">all federal government positions, ... group of poorly qualified applicants </div></div>

I think the sentence segments above sort of says it all.

What was the stat out not too long ago; something like 35% of fed employees had fake college degrees.
 
#34
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(CBS) They are safety engineers at nuclear power plants and biological weapons experts. They work at NATO headquarters, at the Pentagon and at nearly every other federal agency. And, as CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, they're employees with degrees from phony schools.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/eveningnews/main616664.shtml
 
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