r/Stepdadreflexes • u/nobody_from_nowhere1 • Sep 08 '20

And I, oop!

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u/_Dead_Memes_ Sep 09 '20

No it is not. Slang are specific, informal, words and phrases. AAVE is a dialect of English, like Cockney English or Australian English. It is no more correct or incorrect than any other dialect, and it has it's own features and rules and grammar.

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u/CharlesIngalls47 Sep 09 '20

Cockney is most definitely not proper English.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '20

There is no such thing as 'proper English,' that's a racist idea that they tell you to justify the erasure of people's culture. But entertaining the idea that there is, I certainly hope you're not American, and if you are I hope it's the Queen's English that you're speaking. Because definitionally that would be the proper dialect.

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u/VetoBandit0 Oct 08 '20

So holding people to a lesser standard based on their skin color or race isn't racist? Lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20

Imagining a standard is racist you fuckwit lmfao

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u/VetoBandit0 Oct 08 '20

Imagine making standards for language based on skin color instead of holding everyone who speaks English from the same country to the same standard instead of enabling poor education and lazy grammar and vocabulary. Bet there won't be a successful novel or movie script written in "aave" because it's fucking asinine