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Your comment: > Rick, if you're reading this: you need to do better. Front and center of Rick's page. > This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be
by anonacct37 3y ago
Your comment:
> Rick, if you're reading this: you need to do better.
Front and center of Rick's page.
> This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. - Rick Aschmann. (Page last updated: May 2, 2018.
In fact Rick is apparently a professional linguist who's day job involves researching "amerindian" or indigenous languages so he's devoted his career to studying the dialects of people of color. Consider cutting him some slack on his hobby.
- underlipton 3y agoThe webpage is presented as a fairly comprehensive overview of "American Dialects", of which AAVE is one of the most widely-spoken. To gloss over it the way he has is criminal, especially because he's an academic. This is part-and-parcel of the way blackness is marginalized in and erased from the American record. Essentially, every chart on the page is missing a column. It does a major disservice to anyone who might happen upon the page and view it as a credible source regarding the way Americans speak. You might as well present an atlas with the lakes and ponds removed from each map.