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arisbe ([personal profile] arisbe) wrote2004-06-02 10:53 am

Fi yuh ahn yuh fambily

"Yuh as a rezedent, ave di rights ahn di respansabilities to elp mek you HUD-asisted owzint ah behta owme fi yuh ahn yuh fambily.

"Dis is a brochure distributed to yuh cawze Hud ah provide some fawm ahf asistance aur subsidy fi di whole apawtment buildin..."

[identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com 2004-06-02 07:59 am (UTC)(link)

This is the much-hyped HUD pamphlet written in the Gullah dialect, yes? I remember all the controversy about this... tempest in a teapot.

[identity profile] baranoouji.livejournal.com 2004-06-02 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wowsers!

[identity profile] prester-scott.livejournal.com 2004-06-02 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Does anyone who talks like this, actually write like this?

[identity profile] chipuni.livejournal.com 2004-06-02 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Uncle Cecil answers all. He even has another copy of the same booklet.

(And the Eli Edwards happens to be [livejournal.com profile] misseli, my wife.)