Anonymous“Kooyeen, I'm African American and being black has NOTHING to do with pronouncing the word "sword" nor does it have anything to do with Ebonics. That is an ignorant, stereotypical statement...”
It was just a guess, since CB said he heard it from a black singer. I have no idea how my guess could be "ignorant" or "stereotypical".
Anonymous “Furthermore, the mispronounciation of many words often has more to do with the region one is raised as opposed to race (although culture definitely has an influence). For example, when I moved to Tennessee I noticed that many people truncated words and their accents altered the way they pronounced words.
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I don't think I said otherwise. In fact, I don't consider words pronounced in Black English or any other native dialect as "mispronounced" words.
Anonymous “Please stop attempting to type in "black dialect." It's disturbing...tink we ain't got any black brothers here in de forumz (what is that...you speaking like a Jamaican??). That's not even Ebonics!!”
It was just a kind of joke, eye-dialect, whatever. You're actually right, maybe it should have been "we ain't got NO brothers here", but I am not trying to be an expert, just kidding. I doubt the tink/thing difference made sense, but I'm more sure about the/de.