This Flickr page features the spelling deficiencies displayed by many “Tea-Party” protesters. The title of the photo page: “Teabonics.” The allusion is to “ebonics.”
Teabonics
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:March 30, 2010
- Post category:American Culture
- Post comments:3 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
Perhaps they are actually on the intellectual cutting edge or spelling reform as posed by Dolton Edwards in his essay "Meihem In Ce Klasrum"
The TEABAG Movement sweeping across America has forged a new English language vernacular. A phenomenon that linguists are calling TEABONICS.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/28/851690/-T…
I just spotted a comment on Reddit that suggested calling Tea-partiers "teahadists."