I’m seeing this floating around and ALTHOUGH I’m not 100% sure of the context, I wanna offer some insight because it seems as though people are taking offense to it…
But African-American Vernacular English is a valid dialect and therefore should be recorded/written down. But to see it on paper and especially in comparison to Standard American English (white English) I get how it can MAKE us look uneducated or unable to speak English properly however, that’s just the stigma society put on it and we accepted it.
But African-American English is actually A LOT more grammatically complex than Standard American English in that we have syntactical ways to express the pass in ways white people cannot.
The list was just comparing some features of AAVE to SAE such as:
•Phonetic shifts [th] - [d]
•Copula deletion
•Habitual Be
•Double negation
• other grammatical deletions and so on 😅
And that’s just a few of many linguistic features that seperate African-American English to SAE. This is how we talk, and it’s being recognized as a valid dialect, we should celebrate it!
I think the important thing to remember is, this does not mean we cannot speak and understand proper English cuz we can! Black people are bi-dialectal asf! Ask a West Indian, ask a West African! They all can speak English but can code switch to patois or pidgin at the drop of a hat! AAVE is like that! So don’t be offended.
(Again, it’s still a pretty ambiguous photo, I have no idea of the context)
This seems like a very basic example of the differences between the two but to me AAVE is nothing like those examples. I’ve never heard anyone say “Seben” before.
Also this really doesn’t take into count that there is regional AAVE.
Exactly Wtf is seben. Sounds made up
I could be entirely wrong but it seems like a non-black wrote this.
No I think you’re entirely right.
But someone brought up a good point that aave is not only generational but regional as well.
So it’s possible that some of these things are just outdated cuz blacks people stay creating. Or, there are regions where aave is spoken like that. But I still think you might be right lol
