European officials approved long-awaited data protection regulations on Tuesday, the latest effort in the region to give people a greater say over how their digital information is collected and managed.
Ebonics may refer to: 1  African American Vernacular English, a distinctive lect, or variety, of English spoken by African Americans, sometimes called Ebonics. Ebonics (word), a term that is used for what linguists far more often term African American Vernacular English, and that was originally used with strong connotations of the African origin of this language.
Some writers stress how the term speaks for a view of the language of African Americans as African rather than European. The term Ebonics did not appear within the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989, and it was not used by linguists.t emphasizes African roots and since 1996, it has been used to emphasize an independence from (standard) English. The initial use of Ebonics was by the psychologist Robert Williams in a dialogue with Ernie Smith in a conference on Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child in St. Louis in 1973.