linguistics on the street

[nvillamena]

how you choose to speak is not a reflection of intelligence like some of the morons in this video think. i could choose to speak english with all sorts of slang its not a reflection of my intelligence

[FLpolo]

here's some "black" linguistics for you: white people don't like bein straight up, dey don't like acknowledgin the rugged raw truth, and just plain don't like keepin it real. i see why they excell in sarcasm above every other people. the two guys gonna sit there and act like dey couldn't tell if a black person wrote it or not? i would respect dem more if they just kept it real and told the truth.

[Zadrii]

They're all completely afraid of saying something racist...

[derrickf01]

Of course they are

[sk8tertater]

It's ironic how "standard English" is actually just standard because London got their shitty dialect in a book first

[ManofManyPasswords]

I'm sure I use a lot of slang words around friends. But many people don't know how to speak both ways, 1 way around friends and another around professionals.

[veryfuck]

"she wasnt no good" isnt that the same as "she was good" (was not no good)

confused.

[Valles923]

They live in the "Ghetto" so they don't speak proper English and basically speak a different form of English..lol..

[veryfuck]

lol :) so its not gramitical correct? im trying to learn the english gramar a bit better. (im dutch)

and i really hear this ( wasn't no good) alot.

[dianesehoward]

I would say that the piece was poetry - no one has a conversation in that form. This was story-telling. How can intelligence be measured by listening to commercialized street vernacular? Speaking incorrectly - according to whom? Who is the audience? What is the setting? Your "test" would have been better served by using a more appropriate subject.

[Rodriguez9181]

Yeah it seems that the media focuses on dumb people more than the people that are trying to suceed. Like me, I come from the ghetto and Im on my way to a MA in Linguistics, why doesnt the media focus on that?

[hamdome00001]

because you can't spell succeed?

[hellokittycutie2003]

I love how they put culture and uneducated together, which is such an insult. There are many people who come from an educated background, and middle class society, and sound the same exact way. It's more culture than intelligence. It's not racist to say that African-American's have a different way of speaking, as do other people, whether accents or slang.

[nativethoughts]

Ghetto grammar, is not the official "black" language. Race, has nothing to do with one's inner persona (i.e. if one is born "black", does he/she automatically speak ghetto? No, it depends on who that person is around, that shapes his/her voice). An upper-class "black" living in Beverly Hills, has a totally different way of speaking, than one raised in the ghetto/lower-class streets of "Philly". It's flawed grammar, embraced and popularized by a lifestyle and culture, called Hip-Hop.

[ofutpamataincur]

i wonder if they would say that to snoop dog himself

girl with the dog "grammatically incorrectly"

last guy said it best: a whole vernacular that works...pretty much

[tcha0918]

and 5:47 I don't think her grammar is correct there.

[tcha0918]

1:48 was he talking about himself?

[kevinho500]

Sure lyrics are not representive for any real language or language variety,which is e.g. rule governerned,such as African American English.

But great example to show many people's stupidness in judging what they don' know, even millions of their national fellows speak it.

[guitarboy22j]

Great video! I thought the african american guy gave the best answer to the question "Is that a correct way to speak".

You should do a video about gamer-speak. lol rofl pwned! I think that's basically the language of people who spend too much time online.

[Horazio]

Using a song was not a good example of BEV , songs enphatize other factors. They shoud have recorded a speech....."in da ghetto"

[kmj2000]

I agree. The song wasn't really black English or African American Vernacular English. It was just slang.