Wanted: Ebonics Translator
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- ItTango
From The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc…AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”
The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
dem bitches be on some other shit, yo...
- bored2death0
Have you listened to rap music lately? I can't understand 99% of what they say. And that slang is probably 2 to 3 months old.
- ItTango0
@bored
Perhaps. But it simply illustrates the ineptitude of the DEA. It's just slang, any kid on the playground can run that shit down to you in less than a minute. Seems like they would have figured that out by now.Posting it as a job position is just pathetic.