America’s Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) plans to hire people fluent in the African-American dialect known as Ebonics to translate wiretap recordings into modern American English.
The Department’s Atlanta field division plans to hire 9 translators to handle the task, reports thesmokinggun.com. Their duties will include deciphering “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media.”
The hiring is part of a contract bid put out by the Department for some 2100 new linguists who will cover some 114 languages. Ebonics is listed as a “common” language exclusive to the United States.
“DEA’s position is, it’s a language form we have a need for,” Special Agent Michael Sanders told CNN. “I think it’s a language form that DEA recognizes a need to have someone versed in to conduct investigations.”
The largest group of translators needed in the bid are for variations on the Spanish language.
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Ebonics, I do not see that language listed on the Rosetta stone language-learning series!
Yo, my bruvas, roll me a doobie and come over to duh crib and toss me a spliff and a torch, bro, I axe ya. Ya means yazz all can’ts read my lingo? What grade ya grad from?
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What's next?
Making Popeye's Chicken the DEA HQ?
I almost pity these brainless twits.
@Al Dente: We don’t want THE MAN to understand when we plan The Night Of The Long Knives.
Al Dente, that’s an interesting thought. Maybe we should all call Rosetta Stone and ask for it.
Ebonics huh ? This sounds like something that curtis slimebag would be up to.
the DEA has the right idea, that is learn the language of thine enemy.thruout history every victorious military action has.do you know what I mean? shit man fuck.
in order to keep dem monkeys under control,ya gots to speak dey langvage.ya down wid dat bro?