Oh speak to me Joe speak to me Joe speak to me Joe.

[reddragdiva]

elephantus: Are there any articles on the English Wikipedia written in African American Vernacular (aka Ebonics)?
avar: elephantus: sure dawg
elephantus: No, I'm serious?
jwales: elephantus, they all are actually. We just use special machine translation software to display them in standard English. But they are written in ebonics.

Comments

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

Re: the subject: Bazooka Joe?

[reddragdiva]

Dead Joe!

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I have got the strangest ear worm now, a mega mix of Bazooka Joe and Dead Joe! Someone should possibly make one!

[rosefox]

If there aren't, I could write one. I actually took a class on AAVE in college.

Of course, then it would have to go up on eb.wikipedia.org.

[reddragdiva]

Nah, it'd need an ISO 639-3 code.

[reddragdiva]

And the Mediawiki machine transliterators are actually fantastically good. We have an almost perfect one in use on the Chinese Wikipedia (displaying in Simplified or Traditional) and there's a pretty damn good one in beta for SerbianCroatianBosnianWhatever (doing both common spelling standards in both Latin and Cyrillic). I think Kurdish uses one too (Latin and Arabic).

[rosefox]

I read that as SerbianCroatianBostonWhatever.