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[–] random_pattern 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I will never cease to be amazed that blacks pronounce "ask" as "ax." I have listened to this auditory behavior lack of precise enunciation as an integrated component of good language skills in them for FIVE DECADES. I work with a team of supposedly HIGHLY educated blacks; they all consider themselves uber-intelligent, far more knowledgeable than most around them about politics, religion, society, parenting, etc., and yet they say "ax" when they use the word "ask." But then again, they spend most of their time cackling over others' misfortunes, and they are brutally abusive toward their adult children.

When I was a child, I was attacked by blacks regularly, one time during a race riot. They regularly made me a target. Sure, I was also a target of whites, being short and somewhat passive. But the whites did not attack me with their teeth or with weapons; the blacks where the ones who did that.

The above are not my opinions, but statements of fact.

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[–] kijoja 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Axen was the original form of the word “ask” in English not long ago. White people actually changed the way they pronounce it, blacks kept the original pronunciation. You are a good example of someone with very little linguistic education.

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[–] random_pattern 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I stand corrected.

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[–] ChiComs 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Pen and Pin are pronounced exactly, and I mean exactly the same in ebonics

I like the fact that "ahmo" as in "ahmo get me some of dat" means "I am going to" = ahmo !