Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get...
by nollidge on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:00PM
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> AAVE is how people of poorer means speak or with less education speak
That doesn't make it not a language. What you're saying is that we should base categorize forms of communication based on the social status of their speakers. I hope you can see why that might be problematic.
> By your logic you might as well recognize English slang as an actual language.
This doesn't make any sense. AAVE is not slang, which you'd know if you read the OP.
That doesn't make it not a language. What you're saying is that we should base categorize forms of communication based on the social status of their speakers. I hope you can see why that might be problematic.
> By your logic you might as well recognize English slang as an actual language.
This doesn't make any sense. AAVE is not slang, which you'd know if you read the OP.