AAVE - African American Vernacular English
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strange outlook, IMOLearn about being black from youtube cacs "brehs"
Just like patois sounds best from Jamaicans, the same with AAVE. It’s not something you just “learn” it’s part of your everyday growing up. White people stay trying to break something down so they can copy and exploit it.
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❄️ 𝟐𝟐𝟕, 𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖜𝖊 𝕬𝖙 𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕴𝖙! ❄️
Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (Published 2022)
The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who love language.”
Gonna be a dictionary
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SheWantTheD
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Saw a snap earlier today of some Asian girl using the phrase mean mugging 
They stealing our culture right up from under us!
Skimmed through the video and it’s actually pretty good. He has a brother saying the phrases and words as well.
They stealing our culture right up from under us!
Skimmed through the video and it’s actually pretty good. He has a brother saying the phrases and words as well.
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get these nets
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Black linguists have lectures up on the same platform.
John McWhorter is a dikkhead on most other issues, but he is a linguist and a staunch proponent of AAVE being respected and studied.
People are saying that whoever this white guy is, he might not best person to be the introduction to the topic .
Sadly, the truth.
Also:
Talking Back, Talking Black
It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the p...
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