Alas, our society is quite frequented by masses of people who seek to reduce the length of their conversation as much as they are physically able. By speaking in those cursed "Ebonics", with little or no regard to enunciation or even the number of syllables present in a proper english word, it seems they believe they can hasten the course which they run to, hither and thither, pointlessly running needless errands which they use as excuses to hasten an end to polite conversation. If only once I could hear the word hello, enunciated clearly with over dramatic tone or a humorous tinge. Truely, my ears only percieve the bastardizations of "yo" or "ello" or even further extensions of "what's up" which in itself is ironic, consisting of equal syllables and a greater number of letters and words than a proper greeting would entail.