Posted by VioLenT BoB (V-Busy) at aca20723.ipt.aol.com on December 10, 2003 at 17:12:34:
In Reply to: The Grammar of Black English Dialects posted by clinicallycynical on December 09, 2003 at 23:46:20:
He's right. You just quoted about a tenth of my research for my final linguistics paper, "The Syntax and Phonics of Commercial Ebonics."
Ebonics or AASE (African American Standard English) is a catch-22. Does it exist? Yes. Does it coexist with SAE, Yes.
A well educated male may revert to AASE, say in college, when surrounded by not as educated males with whom he feels a social or racial connection.
The same can be said for some homosexuals... The lispy stereotype is not the case but when surrounded by their own people some may "Queen Out" for attention (think a heterosexual girl putting a 'swish' in her walk at a pickup bar.).
Needless to say the original poster of this is just ignorant.
If you want to get pissed off about the denigration of the english language, let your ire be raised by white kids who spend all their time IM'ing each other and LOL'ing. Things like PITA, TMI, SOB, etc.
SPELL OUT THE WORD.
As for Snoop Dogg, he's actually creeping up on Shakespeare for most words attributed to one man in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Do some research on Idiolect, before you start judging another man's speech, let alone an entire races (which is not, but you lumped them in together).
VB