Since *many* people are unfamiliar with what AAVE is (African-American Vernacular English, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-…), and thus could not identify it in Dansup's posts that I linked to yesterday, here are the snippets of AAVE he used in each post;
From h-i.social/@poisonous/11374281… , quoted at the top:
'they in my mentions', 'it be kinda' . Note the missing 'are' in the first example, and 'it be' instead of 'it is'. These are strong examples of AAVE.
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Calligrafae
in reply to Calligrafae • • •archive.is/JT3Fu - 'girl we on the same team' - again, missing the word 'are'. I'm not sure if 'build' in this sense has also been appropriated from AAVE.
archive.is/8Ycdv - 'now we about to bring' - missing 'are', again
archive.is/XwGyY - 'he a thirsty bitch'.
AAVE is culturally significant to Black Americans. It is not white people's language to use; when we DO use it, it perpetuates racism and racist stereotypes and diminishes the oppression and marginalisation -
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Artemis
in reply to Calligrafae • • •When people get called out on this, they like to insist "it's such a small thing!" (like Dan did when he said it was about the word "y'all"), and then you go and look at the posts, and they are completely over the top.
These posts are incredibly cringe.
Calligrafae
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