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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by nollidge on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:55PM (#5482018)
> I think AAVE is simply modern America's cockney slang.

Well, what linguists think is that it's at minimum a dialect with consistent grammar and using features of many other forms of communciation that you'd probably consider "real" languages.

Just because it's not what you were taught doesn't mean it's "bad" English or slang.

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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by anigbrowl on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:14PM (#5482129)
Cockney slang has rules too, it's at least as much a dialect as AAVE.
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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by nollidge on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:36PM (#5482278)
True! I was more objecting to the "I think" part and the "slang" part, but I should've been clearer about that.
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