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"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..."

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

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

Date: 2004-06-02 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com
Hadn't heard about that one.

Story here seems to be that they wanted Haitian Krio, which we see a lot of in New York, but couldn't spell it.

Date: 2004-06-02 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoldanarchist.livejournal.com

I may be confusing myself. I must be thinking of this one you refer to, and I am just misremembering.

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