Oh, man, this is hilarious! Look at this excerpt from the job requirements:

Language Skills:

• Strong command of Ebonics and English with the ability to provide clear and concise oral and written communication.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations. Write reports, proposals, business correspondences, and procedure manuals. Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Demonstrated understanding of basic elements of speech in a standard dialect and ability to comprehend slang and colloquial expressions and translate them into their English equivalent.
• Skills necessary to listen and comprehend with native or near-native ability; and ability to follow accurately the basic elements of conversations and telephone calls.
• Skills necessary to read and comprehend with native or near-native ability, and to read and understand various text-types.
• Effective understanding of face-to-face speech with sufficiently broad vocabulary that paraphrasing or explanations are unnecessary.

When demanding a command of the language, FAKE WORDS should really be avoided! LMAO!!!!!!!!!

Um, anyone know what GS level they're hiring at?

Tom

wasteful, wasteful, wasteful.

It doesn't say. Interesting that the recruiter is based in Alaska. Here's the listing I looked at:

https://jobs.chenega.com/Careers.asp...kbvjhkqU04Puqr

Sheesh, we expect all foreign born citizens to learn and speak our language, but not some of our native born, to do the same.

We waste to much money making up committees to make concessions for ourselves.

My husband and his family came here from Italy. No one offered them books in Italian. No phone operators asked them to press 8 for an italian operator. The teachers didnt put him in a special class for italian speakers only. He was sent to a learn english class, and told to catch up. His mother/father knew that to get a job, english was a must to know. School books were in english.

Me? I am native american and raised on the reservation. I have a whole different view of the english language. it was not my native tongue, and I got in trouble if I spoke anything but english in the public schools or markets.

Thing is, Sal, most of them did once speak English, they adopted the mush-mouth to be cool. They probably even use it as a device or code to keep their confidences in check.

John Gotti spoke English and look where it got him!

Hey, think maybe I qualify somehow? I grew up less than 200 feet off 8 Mile - the road eminem made famous. Heck - he grew up in Warren, which is basically 11 mile road. I OWNED 8 mile in High school! Hey, my high school was even ON 8 mile. Football stadium on the north side, school on the south side. I must know ebonics stuff! Man - I worked in them Detroit auto plants. Pure ebonics, man!

Ford River Rouge, GM Willow Run, Chevy Spring & Bumper, Ford Wixom, Ford Wayne Truck, Detroit Diesel Allison. Oh yeah!

Unfortunately, I don't think people talked ebonics in the 70's. This ebonics talk emerged about the same time as rap music started becoming a fad.

Tom