Ya have any desire to change your last name (Slave name)

[↓R↑LYB]

He's not African American breh, he's @egobiggs aka @1stPick aka @Barnett115, a Canadian breh

that nikka still around?????































#FreeTeamBarnett

 

[mbewane]

I can understand the reasoning, but I find this strange.

 

[Starman]

No.

 

[Poitier]

Even then Its still a slippery slope, nobody has the history the black race has on this earth so its not even a simple thing of just picking a name and running with it, especially not understanding the culture associated with it, thats why I never really frowned on AAs "making up" names within reason. People will clown someone for having a "ghetto" name and not a "good" european name, when imo it is a more noble act to see someone wanting to create their own legacy, but the argument about "ghetto names" is they often have no meaning, and were made because they "sounded cool".

Personally, I think AAVE should be its own language.

 

[BigMan]

Personally, I think AAVE should be its own language.

Its not tho

 

[Poitier]

Its not tho

It is. You or any cac wouldn't understand a AA from SW Atlanta speaking the local lingo.

 

[BigMan]

It is. You or any cac wouldn't understand a AA from SW Atlanta speaking the local lingo.

Intelligibility does not equal separate language

Geechee and Louisiana Creole are languages not aave

 

[Apollo Creed]

Personally, I think AAVE should be its own language.

Social networks, and Blacks in general being an accepting people when it comes to anyone who isnt black prevents this though. Back in the day it would take 5-10 yrs for lingo and terms to reach mass america, now all non blacks do is hang around black twitter and look at IG,youtube, etc and pick up on stuff much faster.

 

[Poitier]

Intelligibility does not equal separate language

It isn't intelligible to me or anyone who grew up speaking it. Its a language.

 

[BigMan]

It isn't intelligible to me or anyone who grew up speaking it. Its a language.

Prove it

@kayslay
You too since you bounced when i asked before

 

[BigMan]

Social networks, and Blacks in general being an accepting people when it comes to anyone who isnt black prevents this though. Back in the day it would take 5-10 yrs for lingo and terms to reach mass america, now all non blacks do is hang around black twitter and look at IG,youtube, etc and pick up on stuff much faster.

Slang does not equal separate language

 

[Poitier]

Prove it

@kayslay
You too since you bounced when i asked before

I'm not a linguist but if people can communicate in a code you can't understand then its a language.

Slang does not equal separate language

Its not just slang but syntax and annunciation.

 

[BigMan]

I'm not a linguist but if people can communicate in a code you can't understand then its a language.



Its not just slang but syntax and annunciation.

Those two features arent enough to determine a language vs a dialect or slang

Aave is a decreolized dialect

 

[Apollo Creed]

Slang does not equal separate language

You are defining Language based on what Europeans classify it as, the same way Europeans say African tribes only had "dialects" and not languages. Believe what you want though.

 

[BigMan]

You are defining Language based on what Europeans classify it as, the same way Europeans say African tribes only had "dialects" and not languages. Believe what you want though.

What is the African definition of language then

Also prove AaVe is a language