African-American English

Segment on AAE from the documentary Voices of North Carolina.
http://www.talkingnc.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• humanities
• language
• social
• science

[mdelsaz]

I'm now writing my dissertation, which involves AAE. I'm bilingual (Spanish-English) and I understand AAE perfectly, I love it. I find it straight to the point, economical, functional. I' d never label it as "bad English", it has a history and a background you can't ignore.

[tony1cn]

well, I kinda disagree with that perception (Black English is improper English), in fact, we can still find it in almost every parts of the world nowadays. The way people speak reflects their cultures and we should not perceive one kind of language as the 'correct' or 'proper' to be compared with another language. perhaps it will be more appropriate to say that the Black English or AAVE is just another variant of world Englishes just like the SAE or British RP.

[Mantchi7]

I would consider AAE as a dialect of English. just like Viennese is part of the Austro-Bavarian dialect group of the German language.

In the video they were shortly talking about wether to use AAE in a job interview or not. Reminds me on using to question to use Viennese in a job interview or not. I would use Standard German in a job interview because Viennese will be most likely considered as inappropriate because you don't use dialect/vernacular in official occations.

[nigelholland3]

@jflegionario Its culture mane so you can stop dat. All dat aint even called foe bruh. Ebonics aint improper cuz even Africans an da folk from da islands use broken English. Dis aint even called foe bruh. So you can stop all da bullshit foe real doe.

[mdelsaz]

@Rufusdos It's non-rhotic

[Rufusdos]

@mdelsaz Hey. I'm from the UK, doing a linguistics MA right now and I have a question: Can you tell me if AAVE is rhotic or non-rhotic? Thank you!

[jflegionario]

@tony1cn Yo yo cut that shit mah niggah what you mean black english and all this shit be proper english? Get of yo pedestal boi you talkin bout all this big words like SAE and British RP and all this shit tryin to sound all smart and shit but you aint shit ya hear? there be a reason why it hurts most niggas ears to hear ebonics ya hear? Tryin to sound all smart and educated sayin all this shit be the same and all this culture bullshit but we all know thats a lie my niggah. Ebonics=Improper nig!

[Newbpwng]

Ax

[Warsie]

@EnglishEthnicPride2

Yes. Actually, that was a knee-jerk nationalist reaction and actually no. Ive spent enough time speaking both that I dont notice switching., Also, speaking to foreigners.

[Warsie]

Who still uses "fo shizzle"!!!

[Warsie]

@gute138

Well its a different language lol. We do speak more 'standard' when foreigners speak to us lolol