re: Ebonics grinds my gears.

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Tgrbaitn08 gone be mad at you

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I speak in "ebonics" if you will. But there is a time and place for everything. At work and in a professional setting is never the right time.

I always figured people who use ebonics were just not smart enough to learn to speak English.

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I always figured people who use ebonics were just not smart enough to learn to speak English.

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That’s the answer.

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Yeah, this means it isn't English.

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Amazing.

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I think Boston and New York accents are not English either. Along with any southern accent or dialect. If you take a Florida accent that is an amalgamation of all these accents over a few generations and let that person speak, I think that is the American English dialect. I mean, just think back to middle school... How you read to yourself, just as the words are printed, without your southern/NE/Texan/Yay/Valley Girl accent...That is modern English.

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What the frick are you talking about? Do you know that standard American English itself is a dialect?

That’s great, but I mean the most widely spoken language in Latin America is Spanish officially. Doesn’t mean that the people speaking castellano aren’t speaking Spanish to a certain degree. It’s just a bastardized and incorrect version of it.

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Oh really? What are the rules?

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It shares the same general distinctions of tense and aspect as Standard American English, except it often uses consistent deletions (such as have, from "I've gone to the store to "I gone to the store"), as well as the use of specific words to represent every possible verbal conjugation permutation, such as with "been," which is used with a verbal complement. Other features include an invariant be, a modal semi-auxiliary use of the word "come" (as in "he come walkin") and copula deletion. Another consistent feature of AAVE is that deletion or swallowing of words occurs most often when there is a standard use of a contraction in Standard English. The notable exception for both SE and AAVE is when the final portion of a sentence is a copula.

Those are just some of the repeated patterns (which is what make up grammar rules) that define AAVE. I can explain more if you have any other questions.

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No, not really. I know people from both and while they can communicate, its not the same language

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My god.

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She has to relate to her people.

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Unfortunately this is too true. She is speaking to "her people" and no one else. Typical of leftist politicians these days.

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It shares the same general distinctions of tense and aspect as Standard American English, except it often uses consistent deletions (such as have, from "I've gone to the store to "I gone to the store"), as well as the use of specific words to represent every possible verbal conjugation permutation, such as with "been," which is used with a verbal complement.

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That's a whole lot of words...

Explain:
And "he sleep" vs " he is sleeping." Or, he is "asleep".