> Certainly dialects are “correct” in their specific regions. But they're not. AAVE and many other dialects are stigmatized even in their own geographic areas

> Certainly dialects are “correct” in their specific regions. But they're not. AAVE and many other dialects are stigmatized even in their own geographic areas and social contexts. The speakers "know" they're not speaking "right" even when they're just speaking akngst themselves in their own communities. (despite them actually speaking AAVE perfectly correctly - the only way you can speak AAVE wrong is if you make grammatical mistakes like thinking "we be working" means the same thing as "we are working", which it doesn't, that's grammatically incorrect...) And no, I didn't say it's the "correct" version of English.