Your Grammar Is Basic Compared to Black English

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Just watched this a few days ago. Some of us won't hear of it :mjpls:
 

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Nah. Dude is just pandering. That black English ain’t gonna get you a passing grade in any American literature class. Nor will it be embraced by employers.
 

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Nah. Dude is just pandering. That black English ain’t gonna get you a passing grade in any American literature class. Nor will it be embraced by employers.
That is not what he is saying. That is what you are saying.

He is saying how it has been adapted to fit modern speaking and shortened to have multiple meaning like words have in other languages. Btw that is how new words, phrases and concepts enter into the English language.
 

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That is not what he is saying. That is what you are saying.

He is saying how it has been adapted to fit modern speaking and shortened to have multiple meaning like words have in other languages. Btw that is how new words, phrases and concepts enter into the English language.
Meh
 

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How you talk to your mama or your pet means absolute dog sh1t. It’s how you speak in the occupational world that matters.
The Southern accent itself is tied to Black people. it was literally Mandingo/Mende slaves attempting to speak English that gave rise to the accent.

You can read a book on the subject called Bound to Africa: The Mandinka Legacy in the New World by Matt Schaffer. There were words introduced by them that were not even English words.
 
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