Your Grammar Is Basic Compared to Black English
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- Black English is misunderstood. It's grammatically more complex, especially in the grammar of tense, aspect, and mood. Let's see why.
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Thank You for your educated review. Its so important that our culture is reviewed & analyzed thru an unbiased lense.. Very rarely do we get honest interpretations....you are greatly appreciated. You've just taught me not to view my own vernacular as negative, but more creative. As a black woman born in America, I have to constantly remind myself not to view myself thru the eyes of those who deem themselves "superior".
Thank u, sir🫡🫡
I question the reliability of much of this as a skeptic. My default English is black, but close to half of the info imo is wrong. Other half is spot on. I appreciate the effort into explaining the nuances, however I think he may need to speak to some more people that actually grew up talking "black". Some of the complications and therefore sophistication is wrong (ain't right 😂). All love though, thank you.
@@alexanderd.9460That’s the part I’m trying to figure out.
It’s like some of these “Black” people in these comments are JUST now realizing their own speech is valid (because a White guy in a YT video said so). Black English can’t be studied because it’s so heavily nuanced, localized and can vary depending on location; even some of his examples are quite dated.
While I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the attempt, Black people can’t be studied on a cultural, social and spiritual level by someone non-Black.
I guess for some people it takes a Caucasian to say the same thing we’ve been saying for years, in order for anyone to pay attention.
@@getinloser666 it does seem like a white guy patronizing blacks for clout, but I also want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is acting with honor even though he is plugging his book that is probably very flawed still.
Two VERY privileged and entitled white ppl "question" this😂😂😂
@@alexanderd.9460There is no such thing as “speaking Black”. Poor English and slang is poor English and slang-period! Don’t buy into this! This is White Liberal garbage!
Basically we Talk so yall can't understand us. Then we change it when u do.
This is the best answer.
Best answer indeed!
For shizzle
The long of the short of it 🤣
Chuuuuuch
Also, as a Black woman, it bothers me how much our AAVE / Black English is being termed as “Gen Z Slang” cause no its not. They copied it from us, something we *been* using ☺️
I noticed that so much of what they say now, we used decades ago.
I saw some little Gen Z girls tryna say "Gyat...!" was an acronym for "Girl, yo' ass thick!" And all it did was piss me off.
Ay, yo... Check this out, Gen Z... Stay out our shit. Smh.
Drag queens have also stolen a lot slang from blacck women and now people say that blacck women copied from the drag queens. 🙄
Funny.. you act like it's an honor to be responsible for bastardizing the English language and being the original uneducated ones. Young people should by no means copy your culture. Your sad excuse of a culture is the incarnated version of the movie "Idiocracy" being carried out in real life.
That's true about so many aspects of culture in addition to language. The "new, cool" trends in fashion, music, etc. are things that Black people have been doing for a decade or two.
Ngl. He cooking when he said they be sounding like “todays weather be like sunshine” 😂
It’s so wrong it like deep now. Heh
Last year I don’t know if you remember the news that a local meteorologist said “Fo shìzzle my ńìzzle” live on the air. She was responding to her colleague and she got fìred
No he wasn’t nobody even say it like that no more 🤦🏽🤷🏽🤣😭💀
i have never heard anyone say it like that lmbo
I had an immediate blank stare lmao but im also some people here even by this point may be like 'it sounds fine to me' haha
"I been told you that = I told you that a long time ago, dummy" On point 100% lol Love the "dummy" part cause it adds the frustration we feel for that thing that was told not being recognized/remembered.
Soooo true 😂and my face always scrunches up. 😖 Like my aunt always said “duh-ruh” 😏
It’s the same as “I’ve been telling you that.” It just cuts out words. Have to fill in the blanks.
And when outsiders catch on, we come up with all new slang and dialects 🤣🤣🤣
Ong 😂😂 💯
Facts...... When they catch up they are already behind
Its been evolving even faster with social media😂😂😂
Right? Gotta keep the game rollin
Lol you sholl kno what to say
This is really interesting because whenever I hear someone misuse Black English grammar in an incorrect way, it feels the same way as when someone misuses Standard American English. I guess it was just my brain picking up on the grammatical rules of both systems.
Agreed. A white friend once got frustrated that I wasn’t messaging her back fast enough (I’m guessing), so after like 10 minutes she messaged me “Why won’t you fuck with me!” I was confused. I now believe she was meaning it as a variant of, “I fuck with her,” and she wanted me to interact with her… because she didn’t know that it’s a general mood of being cool with someone and not a specific interaction? It sounds weird even as I type.
@@mollygrace3068 This conjured up an image of you confused and typing back “But girl I do”😂
This dude should be telling you there's no such thing as Standard American English! At least, that's what he told me - I mean, he's wrong, but still, that's what he said.
Well black English is a European dialect but @@kendallwhite7002
ppl misusing black english fr be sounding like starfire
I didn’t realize how much I used AAVE until I moved to Korea because my non-US friends were constantly asking me what I was saying. I specifically remember telling a friend “She shoulda been done that 🙄” and my friend was like “huh? Is that even English” 🤣 living there definitely made me appreciate our culture and variety of English more
I hope you told her she was right.
That's not english !
@@user-ke7wd3cl9z yeah, as I said it’s AAVE lol
@@user-ke7wd3cl9z it’s not standard English no. It’s a dialect. It’s like you didn’t watch the video.
I know it’s off topic but is living in Korea better than America? Are there any pros or cons ?
@@user-ke7wd3cl9zdid you not watch the video ????
My favorite AAVE saying is still “Say less,” because we say a LOT more with a LOT less and we mean it LOL
It basically means.."I gotcha, no need to further explain"
It's the hood version of "As long as we tracking.."
In the country we say " say no mo"😂
@@CHASIN_A_BASS”say no mo” and “say less” are actually different 😅
The former is an agreement with the words previously spoken. While the later is an acknowledgement of understanding the context of a situation without further explanation, usually it indicates advice is to follow. I.e “say less, so watchu gon do about it”
@@3zyon actually around here they mean the same exact thing. And are used interchangeably.
"They not like us..."
underrated comment
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💣🎤
For my white friends: this means 'they not like us'
EDIT: im sorry if you still cant read it, youre just white
Good answer good answer... We cut from a different Cloth..
I always thought …. “If it’s so lazy and simple for simple people then why can’t you do it? Why do YOU sound so stupid trying to imitate it… incorrectly?”
Too smart to speak lazy.
@@Aeimos Lazy is brillant. Why? Removes unnecessary verbiage.
@@jamessanders6788if no one was ever a little bit lazy then I don’t think a lot of inventions would have been invented
@@Aeimos sick of these people speaking "english" remember when we used to speak PIE like civilized people, distraughting to see how we've fallen
@@jamessanders6788 The extra verbiage is more intelligent and aligns with the grammar inherited from the Indo-European branch and is White.
I'm a Black person that had to grow up and go to an HBCU to learn this lesson, which is just a testament to the racism DEEPLY rooted in our education system and general way of thinking.
Racism and anti-blackness has placed a perpetual blinder on everyone's perspective on AAs. We are incredibly innovative and creative people, but the blinders are so strong that everything we do is downplayed or diminished by the entire world.
Downplayed and diminished by the entire world yet imitated by the entire .... and I do mean entire world. Everything we do has made the entire world wealthy. Kids in [name a country{ have never even seen a Błack American in person yet are raking in millions imitating them. But continue downplaying and diminishing ...
Basically Culture Vultures
Exactly. Thats the gag.
SulminatiBoss - it’s because language is the easiest and most no-cost way to steal from a culture. Anybody can start speaking another way today.
It’s not like basketball where they want to do what Błack players do on the court. Those players literally changed the game and they want to do it but they can’t. They don’t have the moves, rhythm, speed, agility or strength. Can’t see the court.
Or music. They can’t just start improvising and playing by ear or dance the same or sing the same. That all requires talent to steal and duplicate. But language? Language is up for grabs. Just steal and say, and it’s “yours.” This is where we are
@@noble604 our language was never up for grabs, stealing like usual and putting your face on it, we don’t want or need ppl validation, you only saying that because you think it’s beneficial for you like usual but it don’t work like that
Hahaha this made me realize when we "code switch" it's really a language switch! Soon as 5pm hit the "ebonics" is back 😩
Code switching runs much deeper... What you are talking about it's just about being professional at work
😂
All the Black professionals agree🤣🤣🤣
It’s more than language switching. But I won’t go into details in front of company.
Omg so true lol
As a white guy that played Scrabble with black people, I coulda told you this years ago.
I am deceased 💀 thinking about you playing scrabble with folks use AAVE!
I do speak AAVE, and write some of it on social media in blk spaces, but it never occurred to me that AAVE or Ebonics was showing up in scrabble games! 💀
lol 😂
🤣 I use to play scrabble with my grandmother, that was her favorite game and she would use words of Louisiana Creole, AAVE and standard English and I _swear_ she would be making up words if she was starting to lose. 😂
@@RobeLifeMusic uh Rob, that's 'i coulda been told y'all that' 🤣
@@oneidajames-rebeccu4847 True. Also, it's Robe, not Rob. As in the majestic clothing and sleepwear attire. Hence, "Robe Life" 👘🙌
That scarecrow is Michael Jackson in The Wiz, not to be confused with the Wizard of Oz. It has all the same characters except it's told from an "urban" viewpoint.
I remember when they announced on national news that kids in California not testing well wasn't because of the teachers, it was because kids were too stupid to understand basic English. That's how it was implied. They were saying since proper English wasn't spoken at home kids found it difficult in school.
I was a child myself, living on the East Coast and when I heard that, it hurt my heart, it still does, because I can clearly remember the news talking about them naming it Ebonics. People don't seem to understand when it comes to American Black Culture when people talk about a group of us, we know they're talking about all of us. Because we are hardly ever seen as individuals. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Black people speak melodically. We bend the language to our personalities and use words differently based on situations and are not limited by the dictionary
It's based on our original West African sentence structure
@@sparklesp9304 Such as?
@sparklesp9304 no it ain't. That's all black American made.
He is probably upset because they CANNOY CONTRY OUR TONGUES! 💆🏾🔥🖤👸🏾🙎🏾♂️🙍🏾
Just magical ✨✨✨
"You coulda been gone there" = you could've traveled to that place long ago. "You been coulda gone there" = you've had access to that place for a long time
"Du hättest dahingehen können" "You hadded theregoing can/ "Du hast dahingehen können" "You had theregoing can" somewhat similar structure in german tbh😂 funny how similar the structure is, although you would always add an adverb so the meaning is more clear in german and the meaning isnt transported by the position of the "be", but by the past tense with the conjunctive. so the conjucative with the plusquamperfect says that you could have done something in the past, but now its over (this you also have in latin: "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses"). And the the other form means you were able to go somewhere for an interval and can probably still do it. (usually used together with "die ganze zeit" "all the time" -> "Du hast die ganze Zeit dahingehen können?" "You could have gone there all the time?") Its interesting how we still have the grammatical structure but we dont really use it to carry much meaning as we nearly always use adverbs. but the meaning is the same without adverbs, its just not as clear. its interesting how much simpler its to use the word position of the "be" to indicate that instead of a very complicated grammatical contruction.
“You could have been there” is how we say it. And we hate the white term “Ebonics” 🤣🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Bingo
"been gone"= left a little while ago.."been din gone"= left a long time ago
@Gr8Poseidon It's a black term, and it's spelled, Ebonyx. You know, like ebony, black?
As a Black American, our language was birthed out of our need to survive, so we spoke English based on how well our English speaking captors spoke and our need to communicate with each other.
And let’s be very clear that these white folks on the plantation who bought and sold and enslaved humans as a career weren’t anybody’s scholars and keynote speakers. They spoke jacked up English themselves and they weren’t speaking to the enslaved like a Shakespeare play. The English Błack people heard on a daily basis was limited, plain and often broken, full of Southern terms and accents, dropping endings of words, butchering meanings, adapting to each other’s capacity to understand. Let’s be clear about that context
Our captors were uneducated (and lazy) folks who didn’t speak “The King’s English” themselves. They ran farms and plantations. They weren’t the most erudite and eloquent of speakers. History likes to paint them as Ivy educated, corporate leaders. They spoke broken (and plain and rural) and jacked up English. Let’s be clear
It’s not a language.
@@tecumseh4095semantics, given you know what she meant… “Dialect”, since you seem to want to be in correction mode. 🙄🤦🏽♀️
So, Black dude here and I can say you know ya shyt. At first, I thought this was gonna be lame, but it turnt out to be informative. If there was a book coming...I would probably be, some what interested in getting a peek at it. Cool vid btw! Big ups to you taking a deep dive and trying to explain it to others, and soon as they start to understand a little...we most likely switch it up again!😅
One example of two words with multiple meanings are: "You good?" And "Alright now".
Soooooooo many meanings !!!
And there's the fact that
"You good?"
and
"You good."
Can be about as sentimentally opposite as it gets.
We can't tell everything Good People🤫..Even though we change it when they learn it we got to chill on giving lessons ✊🏿
@@SizondThis is bonding for us. You can't truly speak our language by learning facts on paper so knowing this tidbit means nothing if you're not already connected to the culture.
But the funny thing is I feel like some of them already have a sense of what I'm getting at based on the few times I've responded "You good" when they've genuinely said "My bad" after some minor thing happened with no ill intent on their part.
Just like saying, "That Part."
@@Akhenaton1906 I agree why not give lessons lol they are the ones who are always trying to make us feel bad or stupid about talking naturally, so next time they try that bs that can't say we didn't explain it to them.
I was the only AA in my accelerated Teaching program. When I told the professor that my mom made us speak standard English at home and at our Catholic school, but we spoke vernacular outside of the home, he said, so you're bilingual. I was so tickled inside because my classmates were SO uncomfortable. 😂
I wish other people could understand this
that's not what being bilingual is...I could claim the same thing as I can speak both American and British English. Dialects are not the same as languages. And in case you are wondering, I do speak 2 other languages
@@JonZiegler6 well, as they say languages are dialects which have the army and the navy.
@@mikhailmokeev6913 well I speak a language from a country with no navy... That's a nonsense quote
@@JonZiegler6 well, as of now there are no "countries". forget that. having a global banking system and the system of global information distribution makes the term obsolete. maybe with one exception, which is the country of the ethnicity the author of this qoute belonged.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy
Here's another example of AAE that a lot of people could and would get wrong or not understand. "Yo y'all better come inside, it's hot outside." It can literally be 98 degrees outside, and believe it or not, that yo y’all "better come inside, it's hot outside" has nothing to do with the weather. A lot of people that don’t speak AAE will literally get it wrong. "Yo y’all better come in, it’s hot outside." If you speak AAE, you will know that means there are a lot of cops around and it’s just not safe to hang outside at the moment. And not the fact that it’s 98 degrees out. AAE is very hard to understand like confusing if you don’t truly know AAE. Literally like you around people that speak Spanish and you don’t speak or understand Spanish if you around AAE speakers and don’t speak it because it’s just different from standard English and truly a real thing with code and understanding to those that do speak AAE. Because although you speak English and may be around AAE speakers that also speak English the meaning of words they are using alot of cases isn’t the same meaning as standard English and many truly don’t know that. So many that don’t speak or understand AAE look down or think AAE isn’t proper way to speak when it’s millions on millions that understand or speak it so it’s not just a situation of people not being able to speak proper, speak ghetto or uneducated it’s literally it’s own language with deep codes , rules and understanding that somewhere in history wasn’t discovered or respected from non AAE speakers.
Preach....
True.....interesting cuz I didn't even get your example at first, only because I know the phrase "the block is hot" in reference to police presence not necessarily just saying "it's hot outside"
Whole conversations can be had in Ebonics around people that only speak the Kings English and they won’t have any idea what’s being discussed. It’s fascinating how language can be manipulated.
this is how i feel explaining caribbean languages to my foreign friends. ebonics is seen as lazy but is vastly complex and diverse, also constantly evolving.
Emphasis on constantly evolving I go back to the city and hear new lingo and laugh at how it keeps going I love it
@@dfredankey word, I'm Dominican. Just started kicking it with folks who came to the states and found out all my slang been outdated for a whole decade
This 👆🏿 & often labelled with derogatory terms like "Broken English" when they are Creoles that even carry grammatical inflexions from African languages! Nothing can be broken about a language!
gotta keep the posers at bay
I don't see why it would need to be explained why a none American would speak broken English..
As a black man with two college degrees and a grandmother who was a school teacher, I was able to master both, the “King’s English” and “Ebonics”. My favorite term in AAL is “iight now” or “alright now”. Can be used as a warning, a congratulatory praise and a couple other different interpretations. To understand which one is being used requires context of the situation at hand. Those of us who have the ability to use both traditionally use one or the other depending on the environment, hence the term “code switching”.
Stop giving away secrets! LOL Context, Tone and even age can determine what some words "saying" mean. Truly, has cultural and generational significance. No 🧢
"Alright now" is standard English and has multiple meanings based on intonation and context as well.
I remember when you did not talk if front of company. ❤
lol You are so right I'm 22 and use "Yah Hurd meh" and "alright now" the second one can also be used as a greeting or to show that you are listening or agreeing with something.
@@nonyobisniss7928 Yes the two words Alright and Now are english but how blacks use it is different.
The tonality in which the sentence is said can change the entire meaning of the sentence. I'm def interested in buying that book
“You coulda been gone there”
Means the opportunity to go somewhere has been available for some time.
“You been coulda gone there”
Means you should have long ago taken the opportunity to go to a particular place.
So "tryna" CAN mean "trying to", but you're right that we also use it a lot to mean "want to," "thinking about," "planning on, " etc.
i’m not black but grew up speaking Black English w my peers - the example that came to mind is fixing something.
“i’m tryna fix this thing” could mean both “in the moment i am attempting to repair it”, and “i have intention down the line to fix the thing”.
@@Very_Okay That's a good example because saying "I'm not tryna fix that," would definitely sound like "I have no intention of fixing that."
@@Very_Okaywhen you make a suggestion to a friend and they respond “I ain’t fixin to do sh*t” and you all burst out laughing is a staple when communicating in black. I grew up hearing that on the west coast with family and neighbors from the south.
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 😂😂😂 true.
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 I also know of white speech examples of "fixin' " to do something. It meant more like I'm planning on doing something, either in the near future, or at an indeterminate time. But I don't think I ever heard it in the negative.
It's why it's so easy to know when someone is misusing AAVE. It's obvious to native speakers
A k-pop star went viral and got dragged for saying "I'm gon' finna" in a song last year
It was the most cringe thing I've heard in ages 😬
For Koreans not to like black people that much, they stay biting our ish!
@@concamon1364 hahahahaa
Yup. Not like us...proceed with caution.
Kpop stars are supposed to be hiring americans for their lyrics? Yikessss😅 but Koreans make a lot of mistakes in English anyway cause they have such a different native language than us
Will never forget the day my elementary teachers told me “ I been had dis” wasn’t a real sentence and didn’t make sense 😔
man, you killed this! you clarified things in our dialect that i knew instinctually but never considered trying to explain. your handle on tenses is ridiculous, i heard there's 36 tenses or something like that, i might speak them all but couldn't label more than like 4. lol. first, i smiled every time you said a sentence in this dialect and it flowed outcha mouf like u been speakin this. the respect feels good.
I appreciate you! I came up in communities that speak this language. It definitely stands out when people fake it.
As a 40+ Black man born in MS and raised in MI and have lived in IL, GA, TX, and currently CA, this right up my alley! "You coulda been gon dere" indicates what you probably should have already done, while "You been coulda gon dere" indicates the ability to go that spot has been present for a long time and isn't necessarily present now! One is a statement of what was expected but not achieved, the other is a question about why it wasn't!
With sarcasm on the side 😂. Glad to read it's read the same as I heard it.
Exactly!
And this is a base level example. Because depending on our mood, how we say it or given the situation when we say it; the phrase, question or statement can take on a whole other meaning. And this is what most outsiders don't understand...! 😂😂 It's like we have a code within a code within an code.
@@d_classified6433🌹
A lot of communication with us is all about tone and inflection and you know what’s meant based on our collective experience, like Keke giving her one word “Rose” as the clue for “Titanic.” 😁😶
"It's totally possible to get Black English wrong..." Absolutely!! Tell tale sign of a troll!
Facts! The Twitter racists do this when they’re trying to mock Black Americans.
Yessss
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I used to frequent a Błack website FULL of impostors pretending to be Błack. 😞 It was so obvious. They sounded so ridiculous and their reactions to things that happened in the news were clearly off. RealBłack people didn’t care about half the stuff they were responding to. It was so so ridiculous 🥴
And their responses to things. We know how Błack people generally tend to think. They start off their statement with “As a Błack person, I think.... ...” and here we go with the lies.😂😂
“As a Błack person I say everyone should be arrested for parking next to a fire hydrant so we can clean up our communities.”
🤔🙄arrested? chile please.
Trust and believe NOBODY Błack thinks that 🙄🙄....with as long as we’ve been dealing with excessive polîcïng, please know we see you, “Błack person.”
What it do!
They’d be like… what is she talking about?
I’m just greeting you not trying to figure out what it actually does LOL
Yeah people freeze when I say aaye wassup witchu mane/gurl? I'm just greeting lol not looking for a fight lol
One of my favorite greetings
LOL... I love this.
It's similar to a phrase I love "Chile, who dun lied tuh hurr" in that it means something totally different. Every black person knows exactly what that means. Non speakers wouldn't have a clue.
I appreciate the respectful, non-exploitative approach you took here. And, yes, I want that book.
my high school English teacher gave the class a whole rundown on this too when someone was saying that rappers don't know how to use English. was a good day that day
Black English is mostly about being cryptic in order to avoid the law it's complexities are the primary feature. It's not complex because of higher standards it's complex due to a necessity and as soon as a whitey figures out the code it's changed. Black English is overly complex to the point of being useless outside of its own microcosms. Black English isn't good for communicating vital technical information it's mostly good for scoring drugs or getting prostitutes. It's not an engineering language is the language of a criminal.
Aye dawg where u at im tryna come tru and take a flight.
White translation
I'm trying to come over so I can drugs with you and get High
Your English teacher had a passion for language and teaching. Good on them!
Most of them don't, tho
Shake it like you tryna get paid
Make that ass clap
Work it like you tryna get a raise
Make that ass clap
Them niggas throwin' ones we throwin' hundreds
Make that ass clap
Came in the club straight stuntin'
Make that ass clap
We don't stand around we make it rain
Make that ass clap
Bitch this ain't no check, this Just some change
Make that ass clap
Baby you the baddest of them all
Make that ass clap
Somebody give her a round of applause
Make that ass clap
@@TrePrince you’re literally are not listening to this video.
Nooo, you’re leaking our secrets.
I laughed too hard at this 🤣
😂😂😂
Pu'in all our biz'nes on front street. But it's all good
😅😂😂
This ain't even no secret... I'm sick of people correcting me when I type.
This is so interesting! One thing I realized when you mentioned the "tryna =/= trying to" section is how Black English is learned through experience rather than being explicitly taught. So trying to explain/"translate" certain phrases to someone who doesn't understand is actually kind of tricky.
For example, if someone said "What you tryna get into?", I would understand what they mean. But if someone asked me to "translate" that meaning, I'd definitely default to telling them "What are you trying to do?" But even there I haven't conveyed the phrase correctly, I guess because I'm still thinking in a Black English context rather than thinking as someone whose never experienced it. I'd think it leads to more confusion, or the learner sounding awkward when they try to speak Black English themselves.
This is fascinating content. As a non native English speaker, I had always assumed that black people's unorthodox grammar was just imprecise, rather than an expression of different nuances that I would not understand. Very informative.
What I’m learning from this video is that we don’t think Black English be like it is, but it do.
😂😂
Yes, and lol
fo shizzle
And is 😅😅
Your the speak English type
Facts!
I used your dissertation in my Undergraduate thesis and now i'm getting my PhD in Linguistics at University of Michigan! THANK YOU SO MUCH and I'm glad to see sociolingusitic content on youtube dispelling the many myths surrounding African American Language. Your work is very appreciated!!
go blue! engineering undergrad here :)
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!!
GO BLUE!!!💙 Psych!!!
Congratulations!!!
This is an amazing video and a real eye-opener. I can't thank you enough for sharing your research findings, your oh-so pleasant mode of delivery, and your snippets of Black English. I hold a BA in Spanish Linguistics, an MA in Applied Linguistics (TESOL), and an MS in Language Education, and I am so happily surprised to learn in 13 minutes what my 3 degrees failed to teach me!! I'm glad I found your channel and will be watching closely from now on. I often denied the existence of AAVE/Black English/Ebonics, et al, because such labels tend more toward separation than appreciation for the very reasons you so adroitly pointed out in the video. I speak fluent Black English along side what one might call 'educated' English, and I appreciate you so much for helping me place my "native" form of English on the "correct" shelf" in my mind. Please keep up the very educational work you been doin'.
This had my mind blown 🤯 like in a good way. I’ve never heard anyone outside my race speak on something like this. Sure I have interest in picking up your book 📚. You did have me crackin up tho talking through the phrases, that was funny.
Tone plays a big part in it too lots of people think we are angry but we simply express ourselves differently
exactly, we’re not angry we’re passionate!
Idk bruv, Ice Cube always looks angry, no matter what he says
@@arkoarko9559that man is a teddy bear. He just has heavy rbf... 😂
@@ajm935 that I Agree
It’s cause people yell when they speak (obviously not everyone, but in general they speak louder). I see why it can be bothering to others.
It can feel like the person talking doesn’t care or is not thinking about the people around by talking loud and making their presence felt by everyone, even if they don’t mean to portray this.
So this over comfortableness makes other people uncomfortable. Same thing when a junky starts talking loud or yelling in the street. It’s uncomfortable unless you are used to it.
People around get intimidated even though you’re just being “over expressive”. If somebody sees a person who is very expressive, one assumes that any emotion can burst at any time, being unpredictable, which is what people don’t like.
We northern Mexicans go through the same because our accent it’s also loud and rough so people think we are angry all the time.
I would be super interested in a book about Black English’s impact on Standard American English. Too many people have this stuffy idea that language is some pure, unchanging, God-given thing that is either right or wrong, and more people need to understand that different dialects or forms of communication are not only perfectly valid, but often influence each other
Thanks! Another issue I see a lot is the treatment of AAE like it’s some qualitatively different thing. It’s a language variety, and we do a tremendous disservice by pretending it’s not a linguistically normal variety that is unique in the ways that all language varieties are
@@languagejones6784 It's inferior, less precise, imperfectly learned and imperfectly used English. Try as you might, you can never make your case. You're just that type of white person. What you're doing is actually racist, but you think it's the opposite of racist.
@@languagejones6784 It's of no value. It's funny how a certain type of white person, well-meaning, maybe, wants to elevate imperfectly learned English. Similar to Singlish, where I can't imagine an American or European learning imperfect Mandarin and mixing it with English because learning the real language is just too hard.
@@languagejones6784 Shouldn't a black linguist write this book? Whitey knows better, I guess.
A study conducted at King's College London determined that over the last 100 years, African Americans are responsible for expanding the English language more than any other group.
The group that has done the most damage to English? Conservative White Americans. Mostly by appropriating words and changing or distorting their accepted meaning, but also by gaslighting and declaring words they couldn't manipulate to their advantage invalid and/or stigmatizing their usage.
I'm a white person with an interest in linguistics. I think AAVE is really interesting and I'm fascinated by this small sliver into the world of understanding it a little bit more. This video does a good job at showing that AAVE is less intuitive than a non-speaker thinks, which is seems to be by design. I'm going to have to learn more about this.
Watching this as an African American man is entertaining lol. I’m like “let’s see what white knows about our swag 😂”. Nice job bro.
It feels so weird to hear the standard way I talk broken down like this 😅 ....
I don't think about anything that I or other black Americans say, I just understand it depending on tone and context. At this point, I don't really notice when I "code switch" either until I've already finished talking with whoever it is that I switched for. I accidentally said "what you finna do after " to a white friend at work and he was lost, so I cleaned it up by asking if he had plans lol
Love Finna!
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Facts!! I kept having to pause and think when he would say "this doesn't mean this, it means that," because I'm like, it literally means that, but it also can be used to mean the other thing he said. However, as a black person you would just know that based upon the use of "mood" as he called it so I never really had to think about it intellectually, not to mention he wasn't saying it with the right intonation/mood. Had me shook for a sec, like do I really not understand what I think I know? Lmao!
A white friend of mine heard a BW say, “I went off on him.” She asked me what that meant and I told her. The next week she told me that she, “went off” on her husband. I laughed on the inside 😂
they study us like lab rats tryna recreate the formula. Chile....good luck.
I wrote a Hip Hopera back in 1995. When asked what language it was performed in, I told folk Black English ⚫️ aka Ebonics. 🙏🏿
Ah, 90s were good times for hip hop and rap.
My favorites are “I’m already knowin, child please, I’m dead, I’m weak, I ain’t gone hold you, say less, this is a fact, put ya foot in it, fly in the buttermilk, you ugly for that, run and tell that, played in your face, down bad, cuz why would you step like that?” And many more ☺️
I'm from Chicago, what does " fly in the buttermilk" mean
@@moneyboy2k it means something seems weird or off, out of place. Something seems like it shouldn’t be present or be the way it is. It can apply to the way somebody acts around you, or your own intuition about a daily situation. It comes from a famous black author James Baldwin writing during a time of high racial tension in his story, a black boy had to attend an all white school, entering a school where the boy is not wanted or is made to feel out of place. In Ebonics it’s the white equivalent of “something smells fishy” we use the saying to mean “something ain’t right” it’s been interchanged with “somethin ain’t clean in the buttermilk”
@@shellbeeforreal3915 Thanks for the insight.
I love how you broke this down! Our language is so amazing.❤
I remember my little brother called this white girl “cold”. He thought she was fine. She was so confused when we told her that. She was like, “he said I’m cold because he thinks I’m hot?”
Always cracked me up.
Nooo I’m dead 😂
someone calling u cold is a top tier compliment. 🥶 but ngl i forget some english speakers can’t understand aave😭
Wait, is being cold being very cool? You are making sense and I don't like it.
Sure. To say "cold" means someone or something is very cool, or awesome. It could mean something really good or amazing. It could mean top tier. @@andyarken7906
Y’all from the Midwest 🤔
As a Black woman who knows how to speak both, I loved your explanation and would love to read your book!!!
Read, Sonja Lanehart's book FIRST . she is the source .
The way I geeked out in the first 15 seconds ... I will read anything you write and listen to you talk about this topic for hours.
Man took "You need to be studied in a lab", seriously. 😂
Dr. Jones used that "finna" so smoothly, I ain't even notice it!
I caught it 2 seconds later and said, "aight... touché, sir 😏"
I was confused for a hot sec then it clicked. 😂😂😂
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I’m so happy to have found this. As a Black woman who grew up in predominantly white neighborhoods and spaces, it’s difficult to explain all this to folks and their weird uncles at family gatherings. I definitely need the book!!
Same! I understand Black English, but don't really speak it since I grew up in mostly white areas too, and my parents are African, so we didn't use it at home. I'd love to read this book and learn more about it.
Glad I came across this. Yes I'm interested in your book. Great content.
As a young speaker of black English who's frequently told that I need to talk "proper" this is sooo appreciated and reassuring. Also, my favorite part of black English is when we say stuff like, "You betta sing!" or "Go ahead wit yo bad self" or "Go 'on now". They have so many different meanings and I guess I never realized how complex they were.
I didn’t realize how much people who don’t speak it really don’t understand it. It shows how little they’ve exposed themselves to the culture, how much separation there has been between the two worlds.
The origin of "Black Language," counter to your beliefs, is very well known. The language is the language of the Cracker/Redneck culture brought to the US South. The Crackers/Rednecks emigrated to the US South from the Scottish Highlands and the far northern reaches of the UK. It was never a pidgin and is not a creole. It is the continuation of the emigrated peoples language. Black Culture in the US is Cracker/Redneck culture. You are obviously a professor, not a doctor, and are not in anyways close to an expert on the subject of the video. The video's substance is completely created by you and contains zero truths. You're a sad phony.
I didnt realize it either! Wow!
Or it could be that Black people code switch around unfamiliar Whites.
It's always been easy for me to understand, but for my boomer dad you have to speak very slow and in a certain way or else he won't understand.
It's a bit like if a Brit spoke to you casually, you're gonna struggle with understanding some things.
I just died at “I been told you that… dummy” 😂😂💀💀
@katshell2059dummy is dummy, goofy.
This tracks. I learned Spanish as an adult, and let me tell you, the more colloquial and "street" (for want of better term!) it becomes, the more complicated it is for non-native speakers to learn! Formal language tends to be a lot more regular and predictable- which is why it's so often taught in schools. It's less intimidatingz Unfortunately, this does not totally prepare you for more colloquial sentence structuring, which goes beyond having to learn stock phrases and directly affects everyday grammar.
And that's not to mention the fact that, as these terms and structures are non-standard, and since slang evolves much more quickly than most dictionaries can be updated, they tend to be more difficult to track down online.
This is super interesting and is giving me a new view on some aspects of AAVE, I never thought about it in terms of grammatically complexity like this and didn’t know about a lot of the origins of certain words. Would love to read your book and hope it gets published!
Thank you sir, i been telling these people my english is fine.
As a black dude, I’ve really come to appreciate one thing about America. That’s bringing us all together. Didn’t care as a child, but as an adult now, I love being around white, Asian, Latino & other black folks etc. always something to learn.
that's not unique to America, broski. Most major ports all over the world had multiple groups of differing ethnicities. But I share in your particular "glimmer" (opposite of "trigger") when it comes to being around a variety of people. But I love being around MY people most.. it's lit.
@@lexxlucreAmerica is obviously on a completely different level though when comes to ethnicity’s, growth and coming together.
Life quite literally wouldn’t be the same if we never did. It doesn’t get better then having unity in one of the most united countries on earth. Those are *my* people
@lexxlucre Except America was founded on the idea that we could all come together as different people to create a better world. To me that is a beautiful goal
@@ArtistUnknownOfficial idk if it was "founded" on it
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Can you be more " Pacific? " I mean "Specific" oh just forget it! 🤣
@@uniquedawn2183 I pacifically say “Pacific” to be funny. There’s a time and place for it.
Thank you for giving example phrases. I’ve been trying to find the words to explain this to people for years!
As a Black woman, I been knew this. I stoopped code switching like 5 year ago, having the privilege of owning my own business that is specific to me being and speaking as naturally as I possibly can or want to. However, I am interested in seeing the book you spoke of and would love to know when it is published.
Me too!!!
I feel u code switchin is annoying it happens automatically for me im trynna stop it especially workin in the office and being basically the only black person there
Code switching: I hate this new term. We all read our audiences. How I speak among my parents is different from friends, teachers, boss, CEO, cousins. People who grow up with families from multiple groups will speak differently to fit within because this is natural and we have been doing this before code switching is now so talked about.
I'm black, but my Mother was a high school English teacher at a continuation school. Naturally, I was corrected 24 hours a day when I attempted to bring the language me and my friends used into our home 😂
I was always aware of the latest slang, and able to "code-switch" to some degree, I was definitely one of those black kids who "talked white" Iykyk 😂
What's wild is, my 19 year old son doesn't code switch at all. He is his 100% authentic self, even around other black people. He doesn't adopt a more "black" manner of speech to better fit in. Which is fine. I'm proud that he in confident in who he is.
Anyway, great video. I subbed and look forward to more...
It’s funny when people say, “talk white”. When it’s just proper English. We dumb ourselves down by claiming proper is white, when anyone can speak properly
@@dadegixxer”dumb ourselves down” no… standard English does not equal “smarter”, lol did you watch the video?
It not supposed to be to show how smart you are jackhole, its so your understood!!! If you can't talk properly i will assume its due to some sort of defect on your end. If you dont want to be "disrespected" then communicate properly.
@@dadegixxer But why SHOULD anyone want to speak like a public school teacher, or a newscaster, or what have you. That way of speaking isn't "proper" in any deep sense, it's merely what has been deemed proper (due to complicated historical-especially cultural, economic, and racial-reasons) by the group in power at some specific point in time. And it is NOT easy to speak that way naturally, because the whole point of declaring a specific way of speaking "proper" (which happens in part without conscious design) is to use it to erect social and economic barriers, to mark out those who can't master the dialect's subtleties the way the in-group can.
@@dadegixxer Right. But as MOST black kids will already know, "talking white" was a real thing growing up. I'm 47...so I have no idea what language js doing these days. I imagine most kids are talking "tiktok" now haha...
But, at least in the 1970s and 80s...you definitely got that label thrown your way if you spoke "proper" english.
This is my first time coming to your page/watching your video. I"m an African American HS English teacher, and I would live to have a copy of your book on Black English.
👍👏🍻 And as we all know, en-slaved Africans were also forbidden to speak their native tongue and so were forced to develop a clandestine code of communication via music and dance. That too was eventually exposed (due to house snitches) and therefore banned on plantations as well. Great video, BTW! Thanks
"You coulda been gone there". Means you had the opportunity to go in the past and you were arware of it. Generally used in response to missing an opportunity, like you wanted to buy something but now its sold out.
"You been coulda gone there" is letting someone know they had access to the location but wasn't aware. Like someone waiting for permission they didn't need.
this lmao i tried to say this
yaaas!!!! The 1st is a scold frfr. Ty
Yess! This is hilarious 😂
Yup! First phrase is opportunity missed! Second phrase usually means the opportunity still exists!
@@lamontdurr1682 exactly
I grew up around folks who spoke Black English (at the time popularly called Ebonics). It was pretty obvious to me from a young age that the people who called it "bad English" were just showing their ignorance. I'm glad you're tackling this issue.
Relatedly, one thing I noticed while studying Latin is that there are actually grammatical constructions in Black English that are doing the same thing that classical highly educated Latin authors were doing, but contemporary Americans were acting like it was unsophisticated. Sigh.
@@BacchusLumen the thing that really blows my mind is when Black folks started naming their kids things like Marcus it just tainted the name for white Americans. The mainstream really hates black folks more than it likes classical antiquity
what kind of grammatical constructions? I've never studied latin, so I'd be interested in what examples might be :o
You're full of shit. English had Latin grammar grafted on to it. "Black English" might, through the inability to learn this more awkward grammar, might be accidentally using an earlier form of English grammar - but it couldn't possibly be anything like Latin.
@@quicksilvertaint An example would be omitting the "to be" verb. For example, it's common to hear something in Black English like, "He crazy!" In Latin this was also common. "Ille insanus est!" would roughly translate to, "He is crazy!" in English. But if you were a native speaker of Latin, even if you were writing for a very sophisticated audience, it would be very common to say, "Ille insanus!" and just omit the "is" from the sentence. Which translates roughly as, "He crazy!" in English.
@@languagejones6784 , I agree with that wholeheartedly, and it's such a common example that it makes the point nicely. Relatedly, there are so many great classical names like Cesar or Marco or Julio or Aurelio that were also more common among my Latino classmates and friends growing up. It seems like there's a small resurgence of classical names among people who see themselves as counter-cultural right now, but it's hard to know if that will grow. Hopefully someday Μάρκος/Marcus will be mainstream again.
This was so interesting to listen to. I would love to read your book when comes out!
Love where you are going with this. I look forward to your book.
Black English sounds like a tea
so true
Or a person.
Lol.
Earl Grey’s lesser known cousin
English dialect of African Americans is pretty long. :D One of people called it in my native language: African Americans' dialect and I like it.
"Are you flying on a plane, or do you _be fly_ on a plane?"
"It depends."
"On what?"
"On how you're dressed"
No one says do you be fly on a plane. Just stop.
that's a movie quote can't remember which one. house party or class act
@@lisag31lmao of course no one says it- at least not until a mf is fly on a plane 💀💀
“You flying a plane?” Would be correct.
@@lisag31 You missed the joke, Lisa. It was about being fly.
Nah dat shit was bussin!! Subscribed G!!
This video, you sir, I am just... speechless. Thank you so much for what you do. This is so beautiful I can't even put it into words.
This is why I love battle rap from a lyrical stand point. Theres so many nuances and entendres based on the way things are phrased and placed. So cool.
Look up the dozens. That is primarily where it comes from. It can explain the nuances that you talking about.
YES!❤
Crazy you say that; Me and my brother have always said the reason why people don't like actual HIP HOP is because they literally can't understand it , due to the way how we structure our bars and stanzas. You see metalhead reaction videos and a lot of them SIMPLE don't understand, I remember watching one where they were watching 'Shook ones' and literally didn't know what 'Shook ' meant, I was appalled.
It's definitely an art that would.have to be broken down.. love battle rap for that reason as well
As an African, I'm ever so proud of the beauty I perceive whenever I hear black english
Babyspeak for adults.
As an African it has nothing to do with you. Black English came from Black AMERICANS
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@@LiqmaBallzac sorry. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Haha
@@LiqmaBallzac FYI, I don't live in the United States and have zero intention of moving to a place where I'm not 100% comfortable in my skin.
Thanks! I will definitely buy your book and share far and wide. I love my culture!
Nice, a languager! Super subbed, I love you already.
You coulda been gone there ~ You coulda went.
You been coulda gone there ~ You never go.
My high school was very diverse (I'm talking representation from every corner of the planet), and one day my white friend looked outside and blurted out "It's mad raining outside", which made all of the black kids in the class burst out in laughter.
He didn't realize that "mad" in this context specifically means "a lot of" or "very" ("There were mad people at the party", "That guy is mad dumb") and he was basically saying "It's a lot of raining outside" or "It's very raining outside", which is sort of nonsense. "There's mad rain outside" or "It's mad wet outside" would've made more sense
maybe a specific "mad rainin" event was currently going on outside? a clash and mixup of cowboy talk and black grammar maybe resulted in reverse underestimation. I'm now doubting every word I write.
@@jerkcules6194 "Mad raining" is acceptable and correct though
Correct Solution = mad rainy
@@GMAJXIII Mad raining is correct. "Damn, it's mad raining, yo..."
@@jamessanders6788None of NYC college classmates would say mad raining. They *may* say "it's mad brick outside," but adding that -ing makes someone sound like an outsider or like they're an old person trying to speak the dialect.
This was such a cool video. As a black man, I wasn’t expecting the objective but respectfully analytical approach you took. Very refreshing. Subbed
Someone else said it too, but for reinforcement and also to explain variation, tryna CAN mean trying to. “Are you tryna learn how to braid?”/ “Are you tryna braid?” It can mean want to but also the attempt to learn the style of braiding. “Are you tryna get ice cream?” Here, it could mean a future tense of, “Are you going to get ice cream?” OR it could mean more of a, “Let’s go get ice cream,” as in RIGHT NOW. Tone and facial expressions lead to more of a conclusion about the intent of the message.
Ohhh I agree. When I want to actually express myself I use this kind of grammar to add nuance, clarity, and emphasis. “I been did that” doesn’t have the same emphasis as “I did that already.”
I feel like my natural Spanish language background helped me understand all this better. (IRL, bc we also conjugate the words be and go into all their forms and uses.)
Then when I started learning Hindi all this helped me understand it better! :)
9:45 white boy from white suburbia, but I think I get the nuance? The first I interpret as "you could've gone and been there a while ago". The second feels more "you've had the opportunity to go there this whole time"
Def interested in the book btw!
@@pahko_ you’re the first I’ve seen take a stab at it, and you’ve got it!
very cool! I completely missed with my guess.
That's what I would've guessed too
Exactly what I thought, I think growing up in the South (Deep South they call it Southwest, it’s Texas) as he _veeery_ briefly touched on does help tho tbh cuz this video made a ton of sense
Here's a theory not based on nothing, e.i. based on something. A language used by people heavily involved in trade with speakers of other languages has pressure to simplify and be transparent. It will do so at the cost of compactness and subtlety.
A language used by a group with insular interests will grow in complexity, subtlety and compactness for the benefit (as perceived by the group) of social isolation.
The cockney stall-keeper in a Dickens era London market does not want the police to understand that he is avoiding taxes or dealing in contraband items, for instance.
At the other end, the British upper class was notorious for speaking indistincly a) as a social flex, that is, you have got to pay more attention to me than vice versa, and b) if my command is ambiguous, then I can lay the blame on my subordinate any time it doesn't turn out to my liking and c) "shibboleth" or whatever identifies immediately who has my upbringing and who doesn't.
I teach English as a second language. One standard is all I can teach at a time. Once a student asked me when we were going to cover more African American English, as he was interested in rap lyrics. I was sy.pathetic but stated that it was not part of our program of study.
Code-switching happens all the time, and sometimes it is done so that a third party isn't even aware of the code switch. Think of teenagers planning a beer bash back in the day of one telephone per household.
If one asks about a possible code switch and gets a straightforward explanation, then no problem. But recently, asking for detail about the term "safe and effective" was considered an act of bad faith.
I'm not worried about how "bye, Felicia" was misinterpreted. I'm more concerned about phrases like "follow the science" or "horse de-wormer." These are phrases designed to mislead, and should be named as code switching, because those in the know know exactly what they're doing.
I'm black but I grew up in the suburbs so I had to do a lot of code switching to get by. What I've found is that Black English requires you to listen with empathy to the speaker while classroom English does not. Like, what you didn't even get into with this is how different inflections of the words can also drastically change the meaning of the what is being said. That misunderstanding leads a bunch of ignorant people to believe that black folk are more emotional in our speech but our emotion is literally intertwined with our dialect.
All this is further proof it's inferior and not worth it for anyone to learn. Less precise, much less useful for a foreigner to learn.
I never thought about that until you brought it up, but that makes more sense to me now! Might explain why I had some hiccups growing up with my family!
I never thought about that until you brought it up, but that makes more sense to me now! Might explain why I had some hiccups growing up with my family!
Exactly. A simple phrase like "that's cute" could mean "it isn't cute at all", just as easily as it could mean "it is indeed cute". Inflection plays a major role in our language; it is often overlooked just as often as it is mocked.
That is just sarcasm.
That's not exclusive to AAVE at all.
Accurate history in our primary and secondary education curriculum is IMPERATIVE. No one has to like it. We should all be uncomfortable enough to want to avoid repeating much of it.
@@ivannastorms-thompson3538 agreed! So much of it, both domestic and world history, is sanitized because they don’t want to expose children to the horrors of it all. But that’s how you repeat it
I would love to read your book. As a person who had to move from " standard " to black English daily, this video was eye opening.
I have learned that it is impossible to learn the languages of any group of people you hold contempt for! You cannot speak someone's language if you cannot think of them as your equals, or your peers. Learning a language requires a level of empathy, listening, and learning that racists do not possess. Contempt precludes learning!
You hold racists in contempt, yes? Then what makes you think you can understand them?
@@Name-ps9fxunfortunately being black in America means that you don’t have the option of not interacting with the dominant society and understanding them is literally how black people have survived for these past 5 centuries. No other group of people understand the dominant group and their racist subset more than black people. It’s because of the black person having the greatest genetic potential to erase the phenotypical features of a white person’s offspring when mixing dna with a white person that is at the root of their deep seated hatred of black people.
That's literally where our word for barbarians came from. Greeks looking at those savages living out north of them and saying,
"Those dumdums over there are so stupid. They don't even speak a language, they just say barbarbar over and over. We should call them barbaros because they're so dumb and primitive."
No, take the example of a racist who hates a group so much, that they learn their language just so they can insult them in their mother tongue.
@@Name-ps9fxdo you think racism is a language
I swear the internet is ruining it,.......i use to be able to get good mileage out of a word for a few years before changing up. now it takes a few months before every edgy internet troll is using it.
The internet granted other people access to our secrets. We didn’t care to know more about them. We already were immersed in what they do but they can’t get enough of knowing more about us. Never could figure out what we do to our hair. This doggone internet😡
First time ever seeing one of your videos…
SUBSCRIBED!!!!
I just came across your channel. As an African American woman,Thank you for appreciating our complex version of English 🫶🏾 and I would love to read your book
CC, put sonja lanehart's book first
Really interesting video! My favorite thing about Black English, is how much inflection plays a roll in what we mean. For example, "you good?" can have 8 different meanings depending on the pitch of our voice 😂 Cuz yes, it really do be like that tho
That makes it so expressive and complex.
Yes! A lot of languages are tonal, so much so that it's almost entirely so. A Chinese friend of mine taught me a sentence where 4 words were the exact same but you had to change the tone on each word in order for it to make any sense at all. I was like, oh, we do that too just not in the same sentence 😂
I feel the same way about the N word. It can have a million different meanings depending on who’s saying it and the tone/inflection when saying it.
I watched a video where a man drove around America recording black ppl speaking their versions of AAVE, and it was so diverse, even to the point of being impossible to understand in some areas. And this is coming from someone who grew up on AAVE. But the comments were so NASTY, they were filled with white people calling the boys ignorant and dirty for the way they spoke and where they lived. They were also misunderstanding what the black boys were saying and calling them "Jacka**es", but they doubled down and got defensive when i tried to correct and inform them about what was actually being said. The video was fairly normal, but it got an awfully disproportionate amount of hate. So thank you for this, and helping to spread the message that AAVE just has a different set of complex rules. It's just as valid as ANY OTHER dialect of English whether its Country, Australian, or from the islands, AAVE is simply just another dialect. Also we formed our own dialect because they didn't want to integrate with us until recently, now we get harassed for it. I swear we can't win with them.
I know exactly what video you’re talking about! That video was so incredibly fascinating and made me learn so much about the diversity of Black English. Shame the comment section was a mess. I feel like creators who make content about marginalized communities if they have the time should censor hateful, bigoted comments that don’t contribute to public conversation :/
Can post the link to the video mentioned in the comment?
People will always judge what they cannot understand
What's the video called?
@@queenhodge122 ruclips.net/video/YMS70m-OzXo/видео.htmlsi=LKvR-qpjdCNMijtV
What's even sweeter is speaking 'Pig Latin' without even knowing yet understanding each other clearly due to melodic rhythm. AAVE/Black English has shaped this world in every region. It's our culture, linguistics and music. This is a great video.
"you coulda been gone there" = you could have gone there a long time ago. "you been coulda gone there" = you've have the ability to go there for a long time.
did i get it right?