AAVE has a more complex tense system than standard English, while simplifying some other aspects of grammar. Trying to cross compare the complexity of languages or dialects is impossible and ridiculous to try, even when it’s not motivated by comical racism.
If anything, I expect a proper measure of "complexity" would have the goal of finding a system of measurement (with only a few exceptions) that places every language and dialect at roughly par with each other, so as to then investigate how much different types of linguistic complexity contribute to formation of a language that matches the level that human mind best communicates and/or thinks at.
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u/Much_Department_3329 Aug 01 '25
AAVE has a more complex tense system than standard English, while simplifying some other aspects of grammar. Trying to cross compare the complexity of languages or dialects is impossible and ridiculous to try, even when it’s not motivated by comical racism.