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It is a result of the educational oppression and lack of English language and grammar education for African Americans. Assuming for a moment that this is a tru

It is a result of the educational oppression and lack of English language and grammar education for African Americans. Assuming for a moment that this is a true or even defensible statement, trying to "fix" it would be an even greater injustice. You can't rightly rip someone's culture away, regardless of how it got there in the first place. Expect any such attempts to go over poorly. Also, keep in mind that the point of language is to communicate. So long as that goal is being achieved, what's the problem? I find this sort of linguistic prescriptivism (thou shalt use these words these ways) to be counterproductive and rather silly.

anon151516888 9y ago
>Also, keep in mind that the point of language is to communicate. So long as that goal is being achieved, what's the problem? Because it's a language that pretty much means that they're illiterate and can't actually be understood by normal people. With the other party having to employ mental gymnastics to understand. Let's not beat around the bush here. Not to mention that this "dialect" obscures the intelligence level of the speaker. This will definitely have a negative effect on their opportunities in life.
- Karunamon 9y ago
  Not to mention that this "dialect" obscures the intelligence level of the speaker. This is actually a fault of a kind of racism, though. If we accept that AAVE is a dialect of English, with its own rules (and the article appears to make that case soundly), then people not being able to look past that is a symptom of their own ignorance.