linguistics on the street

class research on public views of black english vernacular.

for more wacky vernacular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJtYV_Cr-g0

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• linguistics
• bev
• street
• presentation

[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

[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.

[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.

[derrickf01]

Of course they are

[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.

[Zadrii]

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

[Valles923]

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

[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.