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Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to worry about conserving AAVE because it equated displacing AAVE with genetically eradicating black skin color
by pluma 10y ago
Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to worry about conserving AAVE because it equated displacing AAVE with genetically eradicating black skin color.
People change their language all the time (which is why the skin color comparison is nonsense to begin with). Ultimately that means some languages are going to be discontinued. Preservation helps preventing these languages (as cultural heritage) from being forgotten.
Saying AAVE speakers shouldn't learn and speak GA is more akin to saying redheads shouldn't should only procreate with other redheads because otherwise redhead culture might go "extinct" (or rather: only survive in the form of occasional mutations).
- tptacek 10y agoI'm sorry, but it's like you read my comment and then substituted some other comment in your head to respond to. Once again: no part of this essay is about whether AAVE will be "discontinued". Anyone suggesting that as a live debate on this thread should probably read it more carefully.
- pluma 10y agoAgain: I'm not arguing with you or the article. I'm was responding to the comment I originally responded to[0] and I just expanded on my counter-point. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030792