Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get...
by nollidge on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @10:47AM
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> it clearly is not a fully developed language
Says who? Your intuition?
> the parallel drawn with French was simply incorrect
If you'd actually read that part carefully, you'd notice that the specifics of the example were incorrect, but even the correction is still a valid double-negative in French.
> if you're not teaching English effectively
As has been repeated several times throughout this thread, the argument was never about changing the English teaching curriculum. It was about having the teachers learn AAVE so they understand their students.
Says who? Your intuition?
> the parallel drawn with French was simply incorrect
If you'd actually read that part carefully, you'd notice that the specifics of the example were incorrect, but even the correction is still a valid double-negative in French.
> if you're not teaching English effectively
As has been repeated several times throughout this thread, the argument was never about changing the English teaching curriculum. It was about having the teachers learn AAVE so they understand their students.