• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Completely tangential, but why are the ‘s’ at the end of words starting to get cut out “She start talking ot you like she work for HR” should be “she starts talking to you like she works for HR”

    its not like it saves you time, and it just sounds awkward and clunky to say.

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      8 months ago

      It’s African American Vernacular English. Calling it “uneducated and improper” can and will be perceived as racist as it’s a legitimate dialect of the English language.

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        8 months ago

        “African American Vernacular English” sounds like an awfully racist term for it.

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          8 months ago

          …why? The term AAVE has been widely used for a while, including by Black Americans.

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        8 months ago

        Yup. Sounding educated and well spoken will get you mercilessly bullied in a lot of placing in the US. Here in Florida we call it “crabs in a bucket” because if one starts climbing up the others will pull it back down.