It’s afro American sociolect.
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gmtom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Completely tangential, but why are the ‘s’ at the end of words starting to get cut out “She start talking ot you like she work for HR” should be "she starts talking to you like she works for HR
its not like it saves you time, and it just sounds awkward and clunky to say.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
remer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yup. Sounding educated and well spoken will get you mercilessly bullied in a lot of placing in the US. Here in Florida we call it “crabs in a bucket” because if one starts climbing up the others will pull it back down.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Much of Appalachia is the same. If you don’t talk like a redneck, you get picked on. The smart kids with social savvy will learn to code switch.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So we’re still looking to survive bullies rather than holding them responsible for bad behaviour I see.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s an explanation to bully and harass. not an excuse.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you still got the point of the post does the language matter if it doesn’t sound exactly the way you speak?
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
And using three periods instead of one comma
HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
They just use the infinitive, like for example in “I swear she be doing that” (instead of “I swear she is doing that”). Thats just a dialect some people have.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes it is a tangent and it wasn’t appropriate to derail.
It’s really not as kind as a person thinks they are being when no one asked them to correct their grammar. It doesn’t show respect to the topic or the person speaking. Something about not letting perfection prevent progress. And honestly it wasn’t hard to understand what the OP was saying so even going the ‘hard to understand’ excuse wouldn’t fit for a grammar troll to stretch their legs out on here.
gmtom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Does it not get exhausting to constantly get butthurt over the most trivial bullshit you read online?
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s African American Vernacular English. Calling it “uneducated and improper” can and will be perceived as racist as it’s a legitimate dialect of the English language.
quindraco@lemm.ee 3 months ago
“African American Vernacular English” sounds like an awfully racist term for it.
lady_maria@lemmy.world 3 months ago
…why? The term AAVE has been widely used for a while, including by Black Americans.
gmtom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because most people that use it aren’t African and many aren’t American.