Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:58:29 -0500
From:  William J Stone <W-Stone[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEIU.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Lords Prayer/Ebonics

Thanks to Jeutonne Brewer for the website address. I found the Lord's
Prayer in Ebonics very useful and will be checking the website for more
examples as soon as I finish my mail. I am currently teaching a class on
the language of prejudice and the prayer is an excellent example of just
that. It is significant because it demonstrates quite nicely how humor
can be used (combined with ignorance) to spread prejudice and
misinformation. Used wisely, these examples can be quite productive.

William Stone
Linguistics Department
N.E. Illinois University