I would like to come with a comment to the entry of the person who teaches college in Atlanta. You ask people to speak "freaking English" and yet you write, "The problem is I am starting to see well educated African Americans use it and its just plain wrong, and makes them sounds stupid." You lack an apostrophe on the word, "its" and you use an incorrect continuous verb. Should be "sound" and not sounds. Marianne Ruud, English teacher, Norway