 I always like to start by having people introduce themselves and what they study. My name is Walter Edwards. I, as you can tell from my accent, I'm not, I wasn't born in this country. I was born in a country called Guyana. And I emigrated to mean permanently to the United States in 1980. I teach mainly pigeons and Creole languages, African American vernacular English, introduction to social linguistics, American dialects and things like that. Just listening to your recent interview about African American vernacular English. And the one question I had is, what is, what is the biggest misconception you have come across about what people have about AAVE? The biggest misconception, but it's, it's not a very widespread misconception is that AAVE is just broken English. It's that people who, who speak it are unable to speak standard English or too lazy to do it and so on. And that perpetuates misconception that was sort of there from the beginning of the sojourn, the sojourn, the beginning of the inhabitation of this country by black people. And it's a really, really counterintuitive misconception that people who have come from Africa, where there are dozens and dozens of languages and the typical African is multilingual and can speak many, many languages. So here's how did you find yourself studying all these languages? What appealed to you about this field of research? I mean, this might sound a little corny and I sometimes don't like to say it, but I came from very, very, very humble beginnings. I, I grew up in the poorest section of the poorest section of George Tungana. I went to school sort of barefooted, my parents were very, very poor. And so I grew up speaking what is called conservative Guyanese Creole, but I lived, I grew up in the city and the urban variety of Guyanese Creole is different from the rural variety, but it's still very, very different from standard English. Of course, what I spoke when I went to school, what I spoke natively when I went to school was not what the teachers wanted, of course. Guyanese was a former British colony and English is the, is the official language and kids going to school sort of didn't, you couldn't speak Creole or what we call Creole is it was, it was banned. And of course, it was very difficult for people like me to, to succeed but you know, some of us did succeed and managed to learn standard English enough to pass your exams and to get scholarships to go to college and so on and so. And just the final question. What's one of the biggest surprises someone might learn about what what you've studied. What's something that surprised you in in your research. What can surprise me is the, the kind of stubbornness that say African Americans themselves have about accepting AAVE as a, as a coherent of variety worthy of. worthy of note. Thank you so much sir for giving me the opportunity to talk with my work. Of course, yes, it's always a pleasure. It was a great it was a great speaking with you.