#african american vernacular english

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#aave #african american vernacular english #black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #black history #drag balls #queer history

[forthosebefore]

Are there Black dialects of Spanish?

Some people got a surprising result after taking an MIT dialect quiz. It was meant to guess what U.S. dialect the test taker spoke and the person's native language. As results started coming in, many Spanish speakers saw their English dialect had been marked as “U.S. Black Vernacular/Ebonics”

But what's the connection between speaking Spanish and U.S. Black Vernacular?

In the United States, dialects spoken by African Americans are sometimes referred to as Black English, African American Vernacular English, or even Ebonics. Though the terms have had different levels of popularity, having a specific name at all has given African Americans the ability to reclaim their language practices as a joyous part of their identity. 

But much less common are terms and discussions about Blackness and Black language beyond English. If Black English dialects exist, are there also Black forms of other languages due to colonization? For example, are there Black Spanishes and Black Portugueses, too? Read more here.

Source: Are there Black dialects of Spanish? by Aris M. Clemons

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#black history #Afro-Latino #diaspora #African diaspora #dialects #linguistics #race #identity #language #Spanish #AAVE #ebonics #African American Vernacular English

[globalriseofblackpeople]

Black language or AAVE (African American vernacular English )

It’s deep in our culture even the little things . Wow

#black children #aave #African American vernacular English #black power #knowledge #black knowledge #black history #black language #self knowledge #language

[fanficmaniatic]

Friendly reminder that Jazz way of speaking is not “thug” or “gangster” But AAVE, an actual existing Dialect in the United States that is predominantly used in Black Communities, and if you don’t know how to use it you should not do it because it comes off as mockery.

#transformers #tf Jazz #aave #Jazz #tf #maccadams #maccadam #African American vernacular English #macking fun of having other characters make fun of the way he speaks is also a big NO people #please just shut up and don’t try to do it you won’t even try to research it #black coded characters

[awetistic-things]

who wanna bet 75% of the “gen z slang” they’re gonna list is literally just aave

#it’s. not. gen. z. SLANG #WHERE R U GETTING THAT FROM??? ITS NOT GEN Z SLANG AT ALL DUDE 😭 #gen z #aave #african american vernacular english #slang

[issela-santina]

esp. Black/AAVE tumblr, do “gonna” and “finna” have different vibes to you as auxiliary verbs?

asking because curious

I was also having a hunch that if you say “fixing to”/“finna” there's more of a hint that the action is intentional or really being set up to happen compared to “going to”/“gonna”

#african american vernacular english #aave #black tumblr #african american #langblr #english

[shewhotellsstories]

Reason number 562,000 that the theft and appropriation of AAVE sucks, people using phrases out of context to revel in self-victimization. "Maybe you'll call me a pick-me for this," dude, no one cares if you like your partner/boyfriend/spouse. A lot of people forget this, but you should like your romantic partner. A pick-me is very specifically a woman so desperate for male validation she validates misogynistic and anti-feminist talking points so that men with open contempt for women will see her as one of the "good ones" and pick her. Women like this delude themselves into believing that they'll be spared from poor treatment by the men they're striving to impress, but spoiler alert: they won't be. .

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#sometimes gate keeping is good #aave #African American Vernacular English #cultural appropriation #cultural theft

[weirdo09]

white people, let black people use our dialect n just don’t use it at all, period, because y’all will say that’s it’s just the way i talk or some other antiblack excuse. especially them grammar warriors, y’all too

#cade’s things #cade’s thoughts 💭 #aave #african american vernacular english #ebonics

[heymrsamerica]

This was my last thought before passing out last night. I’m so glad it stuck with me until today🖤

#AAVE #AI #I’m not knocking AI as a whole #but some aspects are kinda… #african american vernacular english #writing community

[makiruz]

Some people claim AAVE is a language?

What? What? What?

What?

AAVE is a dialect not a language. Holy shit. It's English, it's fucking English; it's distinctly different from Standard White English, but it's English, it's not a different language, it's English

My god. You know you can respect Ebonics without calling it a fucking language, right?

#AAVE #African American Vernacular English #Ebonics #rants

[thewhoodiemonarch]

i have a question!!

its probably dumb but whatever.

in regards to AAVE i (as a white kid) hear a lot of similarities between southern slang and aave. Is that just the way its often portrayed in media? Or is there an actual overlap?

im curious bc im writing a comic, and one of my side characters is a southern black woman. and i dont want to be a dick accidentally

#AAVE #questions #help #poc #african american vernacular english #southern #lingustics #language #if a black person could help me out it would be appreciated #maybe someone who knows more about this than i do?

[just-barely-awake-thoughts]

on aave (disclaimer i am not black so. y'know)

so are we (as non-black people) just not supposed to use aave at all, are there certain things that are acceptable and others that aren't (outside of the obvious like slur[s] and whatnot), or is the important part that we credit African American people and their culture for generating the vernacular we lift from the dialect for use?

If it's the third option, may I propose /aave as a text tag? i'd also like to propose that, when using aave or other frequently-wrongly-attributed vernacular/dialects, a notation symbol could be made similar to the trademark symbol (as silly as that sounds) to be sort of a nod to whoever it's borrowing from?

something that could be a special character that would be accessible with the rest of the special characters like accented letters and currency symbols and whatnot, and it would be formatted like the growth factor in an exponential equation (i think the proper term is supertext?).

because it might be a little ridiculous to go and put in every post with aave - or other dialects with similar tendencies to be misused - a big disclaimer that reads 'hey this is aave not whatever the fuck y'all appropriated it to be' or whatever like waving a big old banner around (though i'm not against that if that's what's appropriate), and this would, I feel, serve the same purpose much more concisely.

massive fucking disclaimer! I am not black! I just had an idea that I thought could be beneficial to the discourse, but my intentions are by no means to speak on behalf of or god forbid over people of a demographic im not a part of (and even have privilege over)! if you are part of the demographic that this applies to, feel free to tell me to fuck all the way off!

also feel free to repost this in your own words, take this idea and run with it, whatever, especially since my following isn't that large and I don't get the feeling that my primary demographic contains many of the people that this applies to (could be wrong. again feel free to tell me to shut up at any time).

#jbat #just barely awake thoughts #jbat's polls #poll #polls #aave #african american vernacular english #black culture

[applebottomjeans2345]

AAVE and misogynoir

an ongoing reflection of my class and my final project

I've been taking a really cool linguistics class abt the history and grammar of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and I noticed this interesting detail abt past academic analyses of AAVE-- when researchers first started analyzing AAVE, the demographic that they initially studied were young Black people in urban spaces, especially Black, working class men. This focus had the unintentional consequences of making it seem to the general public that Black men were primarily the ones using AAVE, although this is clearly not true.

Now obviously, Black women also use AAVE in their daily lives; hell, there are several papers that have focused on the linguistic habits of Black women. However, I think that when many people talk about AAVE in regular conversations, the image that comes to the mind of many is of young Black men; particularly, young and DANGEROUS Black men. With this being said, it really made me think hard about how we always see people on Twitter misusing AAVE (or how "gen z slang" is often just AAVE, once again being taken out of context). I also really think that much of the AAVE being misused online has primarily come from the language of Black women, as opposed to that of Black men, so it's something I've really been thinking about recently-- I feel like there's definitely some misogynoir tied to this phenomenon but idrk how to articulate it. If anyone sees this, tell me what you think, for my final project I typed this post up to see what having a discussion like this outside of class might be like!

#aave #aal #african american language #african american vernacular english #african american english #aae #misogynoir #black feminism #gen z “slang” #final project #linguistics #black culture #black studies

[happi-speech]

I cannot stop thinking abt the "habitual be"

#my speech #linguistics #i catch myself doing it so much since become aware of it HDJCJJSX #aave #african american vernacular english #english #copula

[dinersaturn]

It’s quite… telling when manga translators use AAVE.

#avve #african american vernacular english #manga #anime

[dreamy-conceit]

And I find it much more interesting that people tend to focus on the negative consequences they experience from taking something that's not theirs, instead of dismantling the structure that dehumanises people who have the things that they want.

— Jamila Bradley, @brightblackhoney on TikTok, published March 2023, on appropriation of AAVE

#jamila bradley #aave #ebonics #african american vernacular english #appropriation #cultural appropriation #critical race theory #internet slang #linguistics #quotes #black history