Your Grammar Is Basic Compared to Black English 

I laughed too hard at this 🤣

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Pu'in all our biz'nes on front street. But it's all good

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This ain't even no secret... I'm sick of people correcting me when I type.

This is the best answer.

Best answer indeed!

For shizzle

The long of the short of it 🤣

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Facts...... When they catch up they are already behind

Its been evolving even faster with social media😂😂😂

Right? Gotta keep the game rollin

Lol you sholl kno what to say

It's based on our original West African sentence structure

​@@sparklesp9304 Such as?

​@sparklesp9304 no it ain't. That's all black American made.

He is probably upset because they CANNOY CONTRY OUR TONGUES! 💆🏾🔥🖤👸🏾🙎🏾‍♂️🙍🏾

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"Du hättest dahingehen können" "You hadded theregoing can/ "Du hast dahingehen können" "You had theregoing can" somewhat similar structure in german tbh😂 funny how similar the structure is, although you would always add an adverb so the meaning is more clear in german and the meaning isnt transported by the position of the "be", but by the past tense with the conjunctive. so the conjucative with the plusquamperfect says that you could have done something in the past, but now its over (this you also have in latin: "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses"). And the the other form means you were able to go somewhere for an interval and can probably still do it. (usually used together with "die ganze zeit" "all the time" -> "Du hast die ganze Zeit dahingehen können?" "You could have gone there all the time?") Its interesting how we still have the grammatical structure but we dont really use it to carry much meaning as we nearly always use adverbs. but the meaning is the same without adverbs, its just not as clear. its interesting how much simpler its to use the word position of the "be" to indicate that instead of a very complicated grammatical contruction.

“You could have been there” is how we say it. And we hate the white term “Ebonics” 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

Bingo

"been gone"= left a little while ago.."been din gone"= left a long time ago

​@Gr8Poseidon It's a black term, and it's spelled, Ebonyx. You know, like ebony, black?

Agreed. A white friend once got frustrated that I wasn’t messaging her back fast enough (I’m guessing), so after like 10 minutes she messaged me “Why won’t you fuck with me!” I was confused. I now believe she was meaning it as a variant of, “I fuck with her,” and she wanted me to interact with her… because she didn’t know that it’s a general mood of being cool with someone and not a specific interaction? It sounds weird even as I type.

@@mollygrace3068 This conjured up an image of you confused and typing back “But girl I do”😂

This dude should be telling you there's no such thing as Standard American English! At least, that's what he told me - I mean, he's wrong, but still, that's what he said.

Well black English is a European dialect but ​@@kendallwhite7002

ppl misusing black english fr be sounding like starfire

Ignorance , and taught self hatred.

@@rongair8699 word

Usually black immigrants who’ve been told they are smarter and better when they get here. It was a frequent discussion with my former inlaws. I could not understand how they celebrated their patois (a creole) but criticized ours. Just snobby hypocrites.

@@saturdayschild8535 in my experience it isnt black immigrants I'm talking about no it's other ADOS peoples. The kind of people who say things today like "I was told I talk white because I speak proper english"... You know, THOSE type of people are the ones I'm speaking of. THOSE SAME people are usually the ones that are hyper critical and then of course the educated boomer cosby show people

We dont have a language. Re-using someone else's language doesn't make it ours. The internet is making people dumber.

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For my white friends: this means 'they not like us' EDIT: im sorry if you still cant read it, youre just white

Good answer good answer... We cut from a different Cloth..

Too smart to speak lazy.

​@@Aeimos Lazy is brillant. Why? Removes unnecessary verbiage.

@@jamessanders6788if no one was ever a little bit lazy then I don’t think a lot of inventions would have been invented

@@Aeimos sick of these people speaking "english" remember when we used to speak PIE like civilized people, distraughting to see how we've fallen

@@jamessanders6788 The extra verbiage is more intelligent and aligns with the grammar inherited from the Indo-European branch and is White.

Emphasis on constantly evolving I go back to the city and hear new lingo and laugh at how it keeps going I love it

@@dfredankey word, I'm Dominican. Just started kicking it with folks who came to the states and found out all my slang been outdated for a whole decade

This 👆🏿 & often labelled with derogatory terms like "Broken English" when they are Creoles that even carry grammatical inflexions from African languages! Nothing can be broken about a language!

gotta keep the posers at bay

I don't see why it would need to be explained why a none American would speak broken English..

Straight up😂❤

That part 😂

Popped has 2 p's gang. You said 💩

@@finishyabreakfast21 I caught that as well and started laughing. 🤣🤣

Big facts bruh! You is soooo on point with this one!😂👍🏾

😂😂 Yes, and lol

fo shizzle

And is 😅😅

Your the speak English type

Facts!

i’m not black but grew up speaking Black English w my peers - the example that came to mind is fixing something. “i’m tryna fix this thing” could mean both “in the moment i am attempting to repair it”, and “i have intention down the line to fix the thing”.

@@Very_Okay That's a good example because saying "I'm not tryna fix that," would definitely sound like "I have no intention of fixing that."

@@Very_Okaywhen you make a suggestion to a friend and they respond “I ain’t fixin to do sh*t” and you all burst out laughing is a staple when communicating in black. I grew up hearing that on the west coast with family and neighbors from the south.

@@theinvisiblewoman5709 😂😂😂 true.

@@theinvisiblewoman5709 I also know of white speech examples of "fixin' " to do something. It meant more like I'm planning on doing something, either in the near future, or at an indeterminate time. But I don't think I ever heard it in the negative.

My linguistics teacher was quite flabbergasted with the complexities of AAVE. she asked me how do we come up with it. I didn't want to tell her the truth lmaoooo

Linguists love themselves some African American English.

so true

Or a person.

Lol.

Earl Grey’s lesser known cousin

English dialect of African Americans is pretty long. :D One of people called it in my native language: African Americans' dialect and I like it.

Black English is mostly about being cryptic in order to avoid the law it's complexities are the primary feature. It's not complex because of higher standards it's complex due to a necessity and as soon as a whitey figures out the code it's changed. Black English is overly complex to the point of being useless outside of its own microcosms. Black English isn't good for communicating vital technical information it's mostly good for scoring drugs or getting prostitutes. It's not an engineering language is the language of a criminal. Aye dawg where u at im tryna come tru and take a flight. White translation I'm trying to come over so I can drugs with you and get High

Your English teacher had a passion for language and teaching. Good on them!

Most of them don't, tho

Shake it like you tryna get paid Make that ass clap Work it like you tryna get a raise Make that ass clap Them niggas throwin' ones we throwin' hundreds Make that ass clap Came in the club straight stuntin' Make that ass clap We don't stand around we make it rain Make that ass clap Bitch this ain't no check, this Just some change Make that ass clap Baby you the baddest of them all Make that ass clap Somebody give her a round of applause Make that ass clap

@@TrePrince you’re literally are not listening to this video.

Thanks! Another issue I see a lot is the treatment of AAE like it’s some qualitatively different thing. It’s a language variety, and we do a tremendous disservice by pretending it’s not a linguistically normal variety that is unique in the ways that all language varieties are

@@languagejones6784 It's inferior, less precise, imperfectly learned and imperfectly used English. Try as you might, you can never make your case. You're just that type of white person. What you're doing is actually racist, but you think it's the opposite of racist.

@@languagejones6784 It's of no value. It's funny how a certain type of white person, well-meaning, maybe, wants to elevate imperfectly learned English. Similar to Singlish, where I can't imagine an American or European learning imperfect Mandarin and mixing it with English because learning the real language is just too hard.

@@languagejones6784 Shouldn't a black linguist write this book? Whitey knows better, I guess.

A study conducted at King's College London determined that over the last 100 years, African Americans are responsible for expanding the English language more than any other group. The group that has done the most damage to English? Conservative White Americans. Mostly by appropriating words and changing or distorting their accepted meaning, but also by gaslighting and declaring words they couldn't manipulate to their advantage invalid and/or stigmatizing their usage.

go blue! engineering undergrad here :)

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I am deceased 💀 thinking about you playing scrabble with folks use AAVE! I do speak AAVE, and write some of it on social media in blk spaces, but it never occurred to me that AAVE or Ebonics was showing up in scrabble games! 💀

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

I didnt realize it either! Wow!

Or it could be that Black people code switch around unfamiliar Whites.

It's always been easy for me to understand, but for my boomer dad you have to speak very slow and in a certain way or else he won't understand.

It's a bit like if a Brit spoke to you casually, you're gonna struggle with understanding some things.

It’s funny when people say, “talk white”. When it’s just proper English. We dumb ourselves down by claiming proper is white, when anyone can speak properly

@@dadegixxer”dumb ourselves down” no… standard English does not equal “smarter”, lol did you watch the video?

It not supposed to be to show how smart you are jackhole, its so your understood!!! If you can't talk properly i will assume its due to some sort of defect on your end. If you dont want to be "disrespected" then communicate properly.

@@dadegixxer But why SHOULD anyone want to speak like a public school teacher, or a newscaster, or what have you. That way of speaking isn't "proper" in any deep sense, it's merely what has been deemed proper (due to complicated historical-especially cultural, economic, and racial-reasons) by the group in power at some specific point in time. And it is NOT easy to speak that way naturally, because the whole point of declaring a specific way of speaking "proper" (which happens in part without conscious design) is to use it to erect social and economic barriers, to mark out those who can't master the dialect's subtleties the way the in-group can.

@@dadegixxer Right. But as MOST black kids will already know, "talking white" was a real thing growing up. I'm 47...so I have no idea what language js doing these days. I imagine most kids are talking "tiktok" now haha... But, at least in the 1970s and 80s...you definitely got that label thrown your way if you spoke "proper" english.

Look up the dozens. That is primarily where it comes from. It can explain the nuances that you talking about.

exactly, we’re not angry we’re passionate!

Idk bruv, Ice Cube always looks angry, no matter what he says

​@@arkoarko9559that man is a teddy bear. He just has heavy rbf... 😂

@@ajm935 that I Agree

It’s cause people yell when they speak (obviously not everyone, but in general they speak louder). I see why it can be bothering to others. It can feel like the person talking doesn’t care or is not thinking about the people around by talking loud and making their presence felt by everyone, even if they don’t mean to portray this. So this over comfortableness makes other people uncomfortable. Same thing when a junky starts talking loud or yelling in the street. It’s uncomfortable unless you are used to it. People around get intimidated even though you’re just being “over expressive”. If somebody sees a person who is very expressive, one assumes that any emotion can burst at any time, being unpredictable, which is what people don’t like. We northern Mexicans go through the same because our accent it’s also loud and rough so people think we are angry all the time.

Nooo I’m dead 😂

someone calling u cold is a top tier compliment. 🥶 but ngl i forget some english speakers can’t understand aave😭

Wait, is being cold being very cool? You are making sense and I don't like it.

Sure. To say "cold" means someone or something is very cool, or awesome. It could mean something really good or amazing. It could mean top tier. ​@@andyarken7906

that's not unique to America, broski. Most major ports all over the world had multiple groups of differing ethnicities. But I share in your particular "glimmer" (opposite of "trigger") when it comes to being around a variety of people. But I love being around MY people most.. it's lit.

⁠@@lexxlucreAmerica is obviously on a completely different level though when comes to ethnicity’s, growth and coming together. Life quite literally wouldn’t be the same if we never did. It doesn’t get better then having unity in one of the most united countries on earth. Those are *my* people

​@lexxlucre Except America was founded on the idea that we could all come together as different people to create a better world. To me that is a beautiful goal

​@@ArtistUnknownOfficial idk if it was "founded" on it

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No one says do you be fly on a plane. Just stop.

that's a movie quote can't remember which one. house party or class act

​@@lisag31lmao of course no one says it- at least not until a mf is fly on a plane 💀💀

“You flying a plane?” Would be correct.

@@lisag31 You missed the joke, Lisa. It was about being fly.

@@pahko_ you’re the first I’ve seen take a stab at it, and you’ve got it!

very cool! I completely missed with my guess.

That's what I would've guessed too

Exactly what I thought, I think growing up in the South (Deep South they call it Southwest, it’s Texas) as he _veeery_ briefly touched on does help tho tbh cuz this video made a ton of sense

Here's a theory not based on nothing, e.i. based on something. A language used by people heavily involved in trade with speakers of other languages has pressure to simplify and be transparent. It will do so at the cost of compactness and subtlety. A language used by a group with insular interests will grow in complexity, subtlety and compactness for the benefit (as perceived by the group) of social isolation. The cockney stall-keeper in a Dickens era London market does not want the police to understand that he is avoiding taxes or dealing in contraband items, for instance. At the other end, the British upper class was notorious for speaking indistincly a) as a social flex, that is, you have got to pay more attention to me than vice versa, and b) if my command is ambiguous, then I can lay the blame on my subordinate any time it doesn't turn out to my liking and c) "shibboleth" or whatever identifies immediately who has my upbringing and who doesn't. I teach English as a second language. One standard is all I can teach at a time. Once a student asked me when we were going to cover more African American English, as he was interested in rap lyrics. I was sy.pathetic but stated that it was not part of our program of study. Code-switching happens all the time, and sometimes it is done so that a third party isn't even aware of the code switch. Think of teenagers planning a beer bash back in the day of one telephone per household. If one asks about a possible code switch and gets a straightforward explanation, then no problem. But recently, asking for detail about the term "safe and effective" was considered an act of bad faith. I'm not worried about how "bye, Felicia" was misinterpreted. I'm more concerned about phrases like "follow the science" or "horse de-wormer." These are phrases designed to mislead, and should be named as code switching, because those in the know know exactly what they're doing.

Black English is becoming a lot more accepted in academic circles in recent years, particularly between linguists! If you want more videos like this breaking it down, I’d highly recommend @etymologynerd. He used his linguistics knowledge to break down speech patterns in modern English, which include Black English :-)

Real facts

@@kiddchronic9014 nice pleonasm :)

Me too!!!

I feel u code switchin is annoying it happens automatically for me im trynna stop it especially workin in the office and being basically the only black person there

@@BacchusLumen the thing that really blows my mind is when Black folks started naming their kids things like Marcus it just tainted the name for white Americans. The mainstream really hates black folks more than it likes classical antiquity

what kind of grammatical constructions? I've never studied latin, so I'd be interested in what examples might be :o

You're full of shit. English had Latin grammar grafted on to it. "Black English" might, through the inability to learn this more awkward grammar, might be accidentally using an earlier form of English grammar - but it couldn't possibly be anything like Latin.

@@quicksilvertaint An example would be omitting the "to be" verb. For example, it's common to hear something in Black English like, "He crazy!" In Latin this was also common. "Ille insanus est!" would roughly translate to, "He is crazy!" in English. But if you were a native speaker of Latin, even if you were writing for a very sophisticated audience, it would be very common to say, "Ille insanus!" and just omit the "is" from the sentence. Which translates roughly as, "He crazy!" in English.

@@languagejones6784 , I agree with that wholeheartedly, and it's such a common example that it makes the point nicely. Relatedly, there are so many great classical names like Cesar or Marco or Julio or Aurelio that were also more common among my Latino classmates and friends growing up. It seems like there's a small resurgence of classical names among people who see themselves as counter-cultural right now, but it's hard to know if that will grow. Hopefully someday Μάρκος/Marcus will be mainstream again.

Now my interpretation of ‘trippin’ comes from a person being on a bad high from drugs like LSD. That was called ‘being on a bad trip’ or ‘trippin out’.

I always thought of “trippin” as a way of saying someone isn’t thinking straight. Like when one takes drugs and goes on a bad trip- going out of their mind a bit. So trippin is the same as doing or saying something weird. But I can understand your explanation as well.

@@Salty_KnucklesI wrote my reply before reading yours. I agree with you.

I remember working at UPS years ago like 2003 and I said somebody was hating...my supervisor a white guy was like what do y'all mean hatin....lol I told him it mean like someone dislike them or jealous... Now I fast forward 20 years later white ppl use hatin all the time

@@Salty_Knucklesbut still when you’re on a bad high.. the term trippin still came from somewhere

Babyspeak for adults.

As an African it has nothing to do with you. Black English came from Black AMERICANS

Tether

@@LiqmaBallzac sorry. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Haha

@@LiqmaBallzac FYI, I don't live in the United States and have zero intention of moving to a place where I'm not 100% comfortable in my skin.

That makes it so expressive and complex.

Yes! A lot of languages are tonal, so much so that it's almost entirely so. A Chinese friend of mine taught me a sentence where 4 words were the exact same but you had to change the tone on each word in order for it to make any sense at all. I was like, oh, we do that too just not in the same sentence 😂

I feel the same way about the N word. It can have a million different meanings depending on who’s saying it and the tone/inflection when saying it.

I caught it 2 seconds later and said, "aight... touché, sir 😏"

I was confused for a hot sec then it clicked. 😂😂😂

When he asked for the difference in the 2 sentences, I was like "how hard did they say "been"?? Cuz that makes a difference. 😂😂😂 And was a stank face had? Context clues, man.

Don't tell our secrets. ✋Aht Aht

You hold racists in contempt, yes? Then what makes you think you can understand them?

@@Name-ps9fxunfortunately being black in America means that you don’t have the option of not interacting with the dominant society and understanding them is literally how black people have survived for these past 5 centuries. No other group of people understand the dominant group and their racist subset more than black people. It’s because of the black person having the greatest genetic potential to erase the phenotypical features of a white person’s offspring when mixing dna with a white person that is at the root of their deep seated hatred of black people.

That's literally where our word for barbarians came from. Greeks looking at those savages living out north of them and saying, "Those dumdums over there are so stupid. They don't even speak a language, they just say barbarbar over and over. We should call them barbaros because they're so dumb and primitive."

No, take the example of a racist who hates a group so much, that they learn their language just so they can insult them in their mother tongue.

​@@Name-ps9fxdo you think racism is a language

maybe a specific "mad rainin" event was currently going on outside? a clash and mixup of cowboy talk and black grammar maybe resulted in reverse underestimation. I'm now doubting every word I write.

@@jerkcules6194 "Mad raining" is acceptable and correct though

Correct Solution = mad rainy

@@GMAJXIII Mad raining is correct. "Damn, it's mad raining, yo..."

​@@jamessanders6788None of NYC college classmates would say mad raining. They *may* say "it's mad brick outside," but adding that -ing makes someone sound like an outsider or like they're an old person trying to speak the dialect.

Why on earth would it be seen as less intelligent?? I swear some people are dumber than rocks. Being able to shift linguistic context on a dime is a talent in every language on earth.

I know exactly what video you’re talking about! That video was so incredibly fascinating and made me learn so much about the diversity of Black English. Shame the comment section was a mess. I feel like creators who make content about marginalized communities if they have the time should censor hateful, bigoted comments that don’t contribute to public conversation :/

Can post the link to the video mentioned in the comment?

People will always judge what they cannot understand

What's the video called?

@@queenhodge122 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YMS70m-OzXo.htmlsi=LKvR-qpjdCNMijtV

All this is further proof it's inferior and not worth it for anyone to learn. Less precise, much less useful for a foreigner to learn.

I never thought about that until you brought it up, but that makes more sense to me now! Might explain why I had some hiccups growing up with my family!

I never thought about that until you brought it up, but that makes more sense to me now! Might explain why I had some hiccups growing up with my family!

Exactly. A simple phrase like "that's cute" could mean "it isn't cute at all", just as easily as it could mean "it is indeed cute". Inflection plays a major role in our language; it is often overlooked just as often as it is mocked.

That is just sarcasm. That's not exclusive to AAVE at all.

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@@SamuelRBazemoreperiod!

Don’t go there!

I get an intuitive sense for the first one, I can't seem to get the second one

Coulda done been there

Now the song is stuck in my head.

Thermodynamics? No! What this line is saying is: no matter how hard you work, even if successful, you still lose. If you work hard, and do just enough to get by, you still lose, and you can't get out of the game, because the deck is stacked, the rules are rigged, and they will ALWAYS change to ensure the OPPRESSOR wins. It's really not that hard to figure out. Thermodynamics, stop! Just another white person trying to fix the game.

I feel this way about American politics most of the time. 🙄

@@theimaginatrix7625 I’m writing away. Agents have had a hard time seeing the appeal because it doesn’t fit the exact niches a lot of language books or a lot of social science/sociology of race books fill

Why?

@@languagejones6784 The book is gonna be fire, don't worry about the appeal. I'll for sure parade it around my nerd friends

@@languagejones6784 Or, despite not being linguists, they know you're wrong and the book would be an embarrassment.

@@languagejones6784would you consider self publishing if the publishers don’t get it? I’m applying for an MA in literary linguistics, and ultimately I want to do a PhD on how language and literature uphold and dismantle systems of power. I think this would be a great springboard for me to understand black English better (I’m British and our MLE is quite different)

Ironically, I assumed people understood what he meant, but just thought it was a non-conventional way of expressing the thought and that's what made it quotable. I'm black but not American, we just consume a lot of US media here so I guess it sinks in.

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

I never even heard that shit irl or saw it online

I mean you said boutta not finna, seems to indicate a desire or need for rest but not intent. Am I wrong here?

@@mikeburris3427 for a lot of people I interact with “finna” is imminent but no longer denotes intent, whereas boutta may denote intent, and tryna always denotes intent, especially around conditionals. “I’m finna fall asleep if he keeps droning on…” is fine, but “I’m *tryna fall asleep…” is semantically marked if not outright ungrammatical. “I’m boutta go to sleep” I would definitely parse as intent, but that may vary regionally

​@@DanSmith-j8yHow did you even click on this video if you have this level of bias AND lack of comprehensive skills?

You just told me something new. I always thought that something that was about to happen was going to happen any moment now. So I may have reacted with worry similarly to your coworker if presented with that statement, even though I wouldn't have thought that you intended to fall asleep - just that you probably felt like you couldn't help it. (I'm not a native speaker of English, but I was under the impression that I was pretty fluent)

@@DanSmith-j8y That you think you spouted off a kneeslapper reveals you

did your NY friend ask why you were wil'in with no SpiderMo or skully because it was type brick out?

That’s cause in American classes they teach Spaniard Spanish not Latin American

I had the opposite happen. I learned textbook american spanish. I try to speak spanish with people around me, and everything is super different. Ironically, speaking spanish is much more successful for me when I am in South America.

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

Aka non-black people trying to sound cool

​@@ab-zg8pt Or making fun. Not many people talk like that to be cool anymore. That was the 90s and early 00s era.

@@ReapingTheHarvest as an 18 year old black girl, I can tell you you are very wrong. Maybe you’re just not around young people. Many ppl still try to use AAVE incorrectly. Some do it to make fun but mostly it’s because black culture is trendy and ahead of its time.

​@@spacebar9733it's amazing how far it has spread through the internet, too! I am a white, 23 year old australian, but my peers and especially my younger sisters peers use a lot of different AAVE and black english structures, phrases, and rule sets because it's done the full culture osmosis into young Australian English! Language is cool as hell, the same thing has happened with portugese in Portugal, as young portugese people are hearing and seeing Brazilian portugese speakers in media/the internet and picking up Brazilian portugese dialects! Language is wack as hell!!!

Yep, it's really deep. RIH Michael Jackson!

The need for acknowledgement and confirmation within us and in our community needs healing.

​@@BlessingLee123No it just needs to stop! This guy sounds like a big b!tch about to sit up there and cry because somebody gave him some acknowledgment.... Black men we have big ballz, let's start acting like it! 💪🏾👑✊🏾

What made you think it wasn't a dialect in the first place

@@tashied422 School... learning spelling/grammar would just tell you it would be incorrect.

@@ArtistUnknownOfficial so basically you cant reason for yourself and really arent very intelligent but was judging black folks’ english?!?!

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

Any Yiddish Grammer examples? Or just individual words?

And by integrated you mean appropriated!

@@andreabrown4541 no, he meant integrated. It isn't that obvious in the U.S. but go to Europe and you will find words borrowed across the continent. Polish borrowed from French, German, now it borrows from English a lot (I hate it) and we have a dozen words from Latin, which was used as a lingua franca for quite a while. English uses a lot of French due to Norman invasions, as well as Greek and Latin (Roman invasion), Norwegian (esp. Old Norsk) because of Vikings and no one in a million years would call that appropriation. This is such an American thing, that when you use this word I know you are from the U.S. no further information needed. Btw. Japanese took the whole writing system from Chinese and a hellluva lot of cultural aspects, but appropriation wasn't the word then (as there was no U.S.) so nobody cared. In fact, Chinese poetry standards used by Japanese were held in a very high regard and was a past time of nobles.

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

Without much exposure to people from Alabama throughout my entire life, I always assumed Bill Clinton spoke with a white Alabama accent and Charles Barkley spoke with a black Alabama accent. A few years ago I came across a video of a white guy sounding a lot like Chuck, so I started looking up examples of Alabama accents and learned that regardless of race, folks from Northern Alabama sounding a lot more like Chuck and those from the South of the state sound more like Clinton. I could be wrong on this, not a language expert and never been to Alabama

​@@coffeeortea547 you are right. we do not develop accents and speaking habits based off of our race. its about where your at in the world

I remember when I went to opelousus to bury my grandfather and the first thing my family told me is the cajun people out here talk like black people and cook like us too. My grandfather was the last person that spoke creole to die in my family (besideshis children who forgot all of it )but even the non speakers had the creole accent in their english. I think that's part of the reason everyone used similar speech because alot of the habits come from the french derived languages they spoke or the other bilingual people they interacted with. To the point that in some regións creole and cajun french can be indistinguishable and many people deferentiate the two based on the skin color of whos speaking more than set rules of pronunciation and grammatical structure.

@coffeeortea547 Bill Clinton has an Arkansas accent. But I get what you mean.

That one made me die inside a little xD

Nnnnope. Incorrect. Study up. Try again.

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Yeah no black person talks like that 😭

It was hilarious to hear this example. I don’t even know how I feel about the incorrect adoption and use of black English in mainstream English and by people who don’t know what they’re saying. I guess a mixing of cultures isn’t a bad thing but listening to people misspeak so confidently just rubs me such the wrong way. Like you’ve seen this verbiage before but don’t actually speak to or interact with the people who it comes from…

Okay. Fun video. It's a shame it sounds essentially impossible to uncover the historical reasons why greater subtlety in tense mood and aspect would have developed in AAVE. That would have been very interesting. I didn't hear you rule out the hypothesis that it could have developed (and I lack the linguistics vocabulary to put this precisely) as a kind of subcultural in-group speech. The reason this comes to mind for me is simply that there a bit of a history of AAVE showing up in drag culture - in a flattering way, or at least a way that was meant to be flattering. And I've been quietly wondering for years if that's because gay slang and gay dialects like Polari - which DID function as a form of coded in-group speech - recognized in AAVE similar qualities. That's just a guess. And even if my guess is right, it could be a misperception. I'm probably reaching. If you asked non-black drag queens in the 90s who borrowed AAVE, they probably would have said they just picked it up at drag balls - or maybe they'd say they like the imagery of the "strong black woman.".

@@RobespierreThePoof I'm not sure how word use that obscures meaning equals greater subtlety.

@@RobespierreThePoof The partial adaption of AAVE in drag culture almost certainly comes from the musical, fashion, and dance contributions of black queers throughout the development of drag culture. The contributions of black queers to drag are almost central in its development and to its trends.

​@RobespierreThePoof there is not one in group. There are thousands, but they have a base in a larger shared culture, so buy-in and understanding are quick. Parts of speech we know not were it started. Di-unital thinking. I hate my job, but I have to go to sleep so I can go tomorrow.

@@DanSmith-j8yit obscures meaning to those who don’t understand the grammar

Or will it be intending to in the future or hypothetically.

The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

Yes it means both ways!

@@crownprince6599 The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.

I agree

Your husband's Nigerian pidgin is, in fact, bad English.

Nigerian Pidgin is totally different from AAVE. He clearly wasn’t talking about Nigerian Pidgin.

@osiegilbertjr4126 I am very aware that he wasn't speaking of Nigerian pidgin, hence my use of "reminds me of". I was merely pointing to the idea of dialects/languages being their own thing with grammar and rules unto themselves, and not that they are only "bad English". I hope you have a wonderful day 🙂

⁠@@osiegilbertjr4126I think the commenter knows that

@@DanSmith-j8y Seriously? The Nigerian PhD students I hear speaking both in presentations to groups with lots of WASP's and on other occasions to only their fellow West Africans obviously know the difference between Standard and West African (or Nigerian?) English, and seem to code switch just fine, even if I don't understand the West African speech they use.