AAVE - African American Vernacular English

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Just like patois sounds best from Jamaicans, the same with AAVE. Itโ€™s not something you just โ€œlearnโ€ itโ€™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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what is the source of the seeming angst that the treatment of AAVE as a language seems to cause?
 

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Saw a snap earlier today of some Asian girl using the phrase mean mugging :snoop:

They stealing our culture right up from under us!

Skimmed through the video and itโ€™s actually pretty good. He has a brother saying the phrases and words as well.
 
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strange outlook, IMO
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 .
 
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