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You are precisely pointing out the idea of the article. African American Vernacular English (often referred to as Ebonics) is just another dialect of English th
by gamegoblin 14y ago
You are precisely pointing out the idea of the article. African American Vernacular English (often referred to as Ebonics) is just another dialect of English that is studied by linguists just as any other. Much of it is influenced by slang and pop culture.
The conclusion one might draw from your comment and the research is that to most Standard American English speakers, AAVE sounds unprofessional.
I suppose I don't see how there is any distortion going on.
- tirrellp 14y agoYou got it backward. Slang and pop culture are influenced by AAVE.
- gamegoblin 14y agoI don't see why you are implying it to be a one way connection (and I certainly was not). It is a back-and-forth relationship. Often some rap song becomes wildly popular, and it makes use of a novel word combination, or even invents a new word, which then quickly finds its way into AAVE. Alternatively, many regional words or phrases in AAVE get used by a rapper who gives the word or phrase a wider audience, which then propagates throughout the larger community. This is a bit of an oversimplification (one could do a linguistics PhD on this topic alone) , but, to conclude, I believe it goes both ways.
- tirrellp 14y agoI'm implying that its more often, something that is already a part of AAVE and becomes popularized in a song. This is, generally speaking, the linguistic direction that new language takes, from the vernaculars into the core.
- readme 14y agoWell, I think the first big red flag is that we have public schools which teach the standard dialect of English used in business, as well as the proper pronunciation of words. Then, certain people decide to ignore that and promote their own culture. That's fine with me, but if they suffer consequences because of it they will have to endure that.